N°172 Christmas 2025 Special Set Xmas24 Maligano jasper is a geological

Maligano jasper is a geological latecomer

Sea Glass and Agates

Here comes another cultural melting pot for you: Pearls grown by Chinese pearl farmers

Continuing my experimentation with Azurite - that electric blue-green- transparent semi-precious stone that was so loved by renaissance painters before Lapis Lazuli appeared on the scene

likely home to a blenny or worm I never saw

N°172 Christmas 2025 Special Set Xmas24 Maligano jasper is a geologicalA Stunning Christmas Gift 350 million years in the Making Some gifts arrive overnight; this one took 350 million yearslong before forests, long before dinosaurs, long before humans dreamt of jewellery. Orthoceras fossils, ancient relatives of todays cuttlefish, form the spine of this four piece set. Their long, mineralised chambers feel less like stones and more like artifacts that belong onto the Museum of Modern Artgeometric relics shaped by