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Nice collection of MB's. I do not see any Burgandy pens. I do not collect them but this summer I went to a neighbors yard sale just out of curiosity and found a set of 2 burgandy pens. I ask the man what he wanted for them and he replied a "buck apiece seems fair" (here is the good part going with an earlier CT post concerning $2.00 bills) I paid him with a new $2.00 bill, he just laughed and said he had not seen one of those in years. He got the bill I got the pens.
Semper Fi
Phil

 

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Here’s my two newest fossils.

 

Beautiful crinoids. What's the first one?

 

You take good photographs too!

 

Very nice ! is the first one a kind of crocodile?
I sometimes think of the bizarre being, much evolved from bats or octopuses in one or two hundred million years, who will display my fossilized skull on his chimney. Maybe he/she/it would like to make a lamp of it?

 

...what a bright idea

 

A partial jaw bone from a Mosasaur

 

No, but this is my crocodile fossil.

 

The Moursaur is 7” long, the Crinoid is 10” and the crocodile is 16”. Here is a Trilobite and it’s 9” long and 6” wide. I’ve had him for years. Same with the Crocodile.

 

This is just my opinion, so take it for what it's worth, but the Mosasaur jaws look like the typical fakes from Morocco that are for sale everywhere. The teeth may be genuine, but they make the "jaw bone" and "matrix" in a shop. I hope you either didn't pay a lot, or it was marketed as a composite and not a genuine fossil.

 

I concur as well. Case in point, @Collecting Nut here's an authentic example from a reputable fossil dealer.

 

Wow, that was the deal of the century! As for my MBs I have added another 20 or so since that post. I commissioned a nice pen stand from spalted maple. It turned out great. It holds 10 MBs at a time.

 

Classic. All seasons on Amazon prime now.

 

A follow up to the piece I was building on page 104.I am not fond of stains I like the look of wood to come through in it natural state.I am going to make another about the same dimensions tapered legs/inlays.

 

Nice one. How did you get it so big?

 

In the late 1800’s and early 1900’s Scandinavian silversmiths drew on earlier styles and motifs to create archaic-appearing silver pieces. Some of these were baptismal or christening gifts. Others are more inspired by Viking age mythology. I collect these for fun.

 

Wow!!!!

 

WTH...did that animal have 4 eyes?

 

LOL, no but you would be amazed at what their eyes can do. The longest one ever found was in Africa, was over 40 feet long and weighed more than an elephant. Here’s what you are seeing. The eyes are easy to spot but those two other things that look like eye sockets are located in front of the actual eyes.

Oh, but they do have three eyelids.