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Fantastic deep water Sponge species. A deep water hard sponge, very peculiar resemble Turbinaria coral.
Mounted in a black lacquered wood base, from Tulear, Madagascar waters.
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Fantastic deep water Sponge species. A deep water hard sponge, very peculiar resemble Turbinaria coral.
Mounted in a black lacquered wood base, from Tulear, Madagascar waters.
Pleuroceras solare - Pyritised Lower Jurassic Ammonite from Germany, mounted in a black high gloss lacquered wood base.
A pyritised ammonite, which has been brass brushed to enhance the golden colour.
Hawskerense Subzone, Spinatum Zone, Middle Lias, Lower Jurassic, Butterheim, Germany Age:- 190 Million Years Old Ammonite.
Glass dome with 9 Delias belladonna butterflies, these butterflies are of a great beauty, from the Himalayas to China and India to Thailand.
These ones came from Thailand.
Carcharodon Megalodon (Megalodon meaning “Big Tooth”) is an extinct species of shark regarded as one of the largest and most powerful predators in vertebrate history.
This beast lived approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago, during the Cenozoic Era. Fossil remains suggest that this giant shark reached a length of 18 metres (59 ft), from USA.
Displayed in a glass box made to measure.
Argema mittrei ( female ) - Madagascar Moon butterfly is a very big size moth, with a beautiful colour and shape.
A nature prodigy from Madagascar.
Displayed in a glass cage.
Mexican Sunflower Starfish 23 legs and Ophiura from Philippines Glass Dome.
Two very special Echinoderms, both with strange forms that let us see how impressive nature can be. They are high quality specimen in very good colour.
Both of these species are predator of sea urchins.
Mounted by One of a Kind in glass dome with black lacquered base.
Phacops sp. from the Middle Devonian period ( 395 million years ) of the Djebel Issoumour area, Atlas Mountains - Morocco.
Prepared and restored, excellent for beginner collectors or as decor piece, in a black lacquered wood pedestal.
Brass glass dome with two Papilio ulysses from Ceram - Moluccan Island, a superb exclusive species with bright contrast of black and deep blue.
Papilio ulysses - popularly named as Ulysses Butterfly, Blue Mountain Swallowtail, Mountain Blue or Blue Emperor - it is a butterfly of the Papilionidae family and Papilioninae subfamily, found in the Australian biogeographic region and native to the Wallacea area and the island of Nova Guinea, Bismarck archipelago and Northern Australia.
Small size specimen polished showing all the mother-of-pearl of the Nautilus pompilius, from Philippines.
Mounted in a handmade brass base, it's a unique One of a Kind decor piece.
Supplied with Cites certificate.
Pleuroceras solare - Pyritised Lower Jurassic Ammonite from Germany, mounted in a black lacquered wood base.
A pyritised ammonite, which has been brass brushed to enhance the golden colour.
Hawskerense Subzone, Spinatum Zone, Middle Lias, Lower Jurassic, Butterheim, Germany Age:- 190 Million Years Old Ammonite.
A Papilio family frame, displaying:
Papilio maacki - from China
Papilio memnon - from Thailand
Papilio nireus - from Congo
Papilio delalandei - from Madagascar
Papilio lormieri - from Congo
Papilio antenor - from Madagascar
Beautiful set on a white wood frame.
Pleuroceras solare - Pyritised Lower Jurassic Ammonite from Germany, mounted in a black lacquered wood base.
A pyritised ammonite, which has been brass brushed to enhance the golden colour.
Hawskerense Subzone, Spinatum Zone, Middle Lias, Lower Jurassic, Butterheim, Germany Age:- 190 Million Years Old Ammonite.
Sponge species from Madagascar reefs, mounted in a high gloss beige round lacquered wood base.
Sponges are beautiful decor items, due to its different shapes and colours.
Impressive couple of Dorystenes walkeri beetles, big and perfect coleopter from Thailand, displayed in a glass dome.
This species of Spongia came from the Florida Keys.
It is a very healthy population once from many years they are fished commercially for bath sponges, these are special pieces turned into great decor objects. The sponges feed on microorganisms that they filter and their larvae are taken by the sea movements making them widespread. Taken by divers from 5 to 40 meters deep.
Mounted in a black lacquered wood stand.
Heterometrus laoticus - Vietnam Forest Scorpion is a scorpion species found in peaty areas of Vietnam and Laos. They can reach lengths of up to 17 cm. They are a communal species, but cannibalism has been known to occur, and if caught, they can be extremely violent even towards their own kind.
Rather than being a lethal toxin, the giant scorpion's venom is paralytic. The venom is distilled into medicines against various kinds of microorganisms. It exhibits good results in disc diffusion assay for Bacillus subtilis, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, and Staphylococcus aureus, among others.
The scorpion is farmed for consumption as a novelty food in Vietnam and Thailand. They are also used to make snake wine (scorpion wine).
This one is from a farm in thailand, mounted in a glass dome.
Phoebis philea (from Colombia), Appias nero (from Philippines) and Delias descombesi (from Indonesia) glass dome.
Highly decorative glass dome with four butterflies of each species, shining colours and beautifully mounted in a handmade Redmoor piece of wood.
One of a Kind piece.
Pleuroceras solare - Pyritised Lower Jurassic Ammonite from Germany, mounted in an acrylic base.
A pyritised ammonite, which has been brass brushed to enhance the golden colour.
Hawskerense Subzone, Spinatum Zone, Middle Lias, Lower Jurassic, Butterheim, Germany Age:- 190 Million Years Old Ammonite.
This species of Spongia came from the Florida Keys.
It is a very healthy population once from many years they are fished commercially for bath sponges, these are special pieces turned into great decor objects. The sponges feed on microorganisms that they filter and their larvae are taken by the sea movements making them widespread. Taken by divers from 5 to 40 meters deep.
Mounted in a black lacquered wood stand.
Pleuroceras solare - Pyritised Lower Jurassic Ammonite from Germany, mounted in an iron base.
A pyritised ammonite, which has been brass brushed to enhance the golden colour.
Hawskerense Subzone, Spinatum Zone, Middle Lias, Lower Jurassic, Butterheim, Germany Age:- 190 Million Years Old Ammonite.
Glass dome with three Cymothoe sangaris butterflies.
Cymothoe sangaris, the blood-red glider, is a species of butterfly from the Nymphalidae family found in Central Africa.
Metacanthina barrandei from the Middle Devonian period (395 million years) of the Djebel Issoumour area, Atlas Mountains - Morocco.
Mounted in a black lacquered wood base.
A beautiful glass dome with three Morpho hecuba butterflies from Brazil.
It's the biggest of the genus, reaching 20cm.
Morpho hecuba, the Sunset butterfly, is a Neotropical butterfly belonging to the subfamily Morphinae from Nymphalidae family.
Marine Life glass box with brass edges, inside we have:
- Strombus listeri from Thailand
- An exotic Tatcheria mirabilis from Philippines
- A elusive Cypraea mapa from Philippines
- A colouful Mitra mitra from Indonesia
- A pink sea urchin from Mediterranean sea
One of a Kind decor piece!
Cretaceous Albian period (100 to 145 million years) from Madagascar.
Spectacular big size opalized Cleoniceras group with other ammonite specie.
One of a kind decor piece!
Palla decius and Hypolimnias dexithea in a golden base glass dome.
Palla decius, the white-banded palla, from Congo. Hypolimnias dexithea from Madagascar.
Both belonging to the Nymphalidae family.
Superb examples of how beautiful butterflies can be.
Glass dome with three Hebomoia leucippe butterflies.
Great and vivid colors!
Pierella hypsea and Pierella jena Glass Dome.
These are rare butterflies belonging to the Satyridae family. Delicate beauties, with beautiful colour and pattern, mounted in a beautiful Redmoor Wood piece, from Perú.
A great echinoderm Blastoide, from East Timor Permic beds, in an exotic tecula wood base.
Deltablastus permicus in matrix, from the Permiam period (circa 250 million years).
Busycon perversum is an edible species of very large predatory sea snail or whelk, a marine gastropod mollusc in the family Busyconidae, the Busycon whelks.
This species has a left-handed or sinistral shell. It eats mostly bivalves.
Mounted in a handmade round brass base, make it a very desirable decor item, from Gulf of Mexico.
Phacops sp. from the Middle Devonian period ( 395 million years ) of the Djebel Issoumour area, Atlas Mountains - Morocco.
Prepared and restored, excellent for beginner collectors or as decor piece, in an acrylic base.
Glass dome with 4 Doxocopa cherubina and 2 Prepona dexamenus, from Perú.
These two species belong to the Nymphalidae family, the metalic blue mixed with the black make them a unique decor piece.
Sponge species from Madagascar reefs, mounted in a black lacquered wood base.
Sponges are beautiful decor items, due to its different shapes and colours.
Diplomystus Dentatus fish from the Paleogene, Eocene, 53.500,000 to 48.500,000 years.
An ancestor of the herring family, a very finely boned fish which is extremely difficult to prepare from the Lagerstätte varve layer of the Eocene limestones of the Green River formation 18-inch layer.
These predator fish came from the prehistoric fossil lakes. The lower Eocene deposits of Green River formation was thought to be a large freshwater lake. The calcite would be absorbed by the remains of the fish, transforming their bones into a hard mineralized deposit in the slightly softer and lighter colored limestone shales.
Mounted in a handmade brass frame that can be fixed in three different ways.
Nicaisolopha nicaisei from Upper Cretaceous of Cajamarca Peru, mounted in a white lacquered wood base.
Red and black butterflies from Peru glass dome.
Composed by 3 Heliconius doris, 3 Adelpha lara, 3 Pereute callinira, 2 Heurytides hormodius and 2 Amarriate amathea.
Beautifully mounted in a Red Moor wood piece, previously treated and harmless, for the security and prevention of any bacterial problem.
A true One of a Kind piece.
Melo umbilicatus - Melon shell in a brass base, from Arafura Sea. Indonesia.
This species belong to the Volutidae family, generelly big sized shells. Can reach near 45 cm, gargantuam specimen usually are very scared and few pattern. This specimen is a medium size one but is beautifully patterned.
Sperm whale fossil teeth from the Miocene period ( 23 to 5 million years ) of USA.
Beautiful rare decor piece, mounted in a black lacquered wood base.
3 Sazakia charonda, Japanese Emperor or Great Purple Emperor, is a species of butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.It is native to Japan (from Hokkaidō to Kyūshū), the Korean Peninsula, China, northern Taiwan and northern Vietnam. Its wingspan averages 50 mm (2.0 in) for males, and 65 mm (2.6 in) for females. They are common in the upper canopies of forests, only coming down to feed or to find salt sources. These ones from Korea.
And 3 Lexias pardalis jadeitina, the Common Archduke, is a butterfly of the family Nymphalidae, has a wingspan reaching about 80–90 millimetres (3.1–3.5 in). The upperside of the wings of the male are black with shimmering greenish-blue margins, especially in the hindwings. The uppersides of the cryptic wings of the larger females are dark brown with several rows of yellow spots, a pale green pattern on the lower wings. The wing pattern of yellow spots continue across the thorax and the abdomen. This ones are females and came from Thailand.
Sponge species from Madagascar reefs, mounted in a black lacquered wood base.
Sponges are beautiful decor items, due to its different shapes and colours.
Stunning ammonite with red opalization on the surface, in a white lacquered wood base.. Ammonites were predatory mollusks that resemble the squid we know today.
These cephalopods had eyes, tentacles, and spiral shells. Ammonites are closely related to a living octopus, though the shells resemble that of a nautilus.
Every stone is unique and one of a kind. These fossils come from the Mahajanga River Basin, near the village of Ambatolafia of northwest Madagascar, located in the former province of Mahajanga/Majunga. They are dated from the Early Cretaceous period, Albian age (100 to 113.0 million years ago).
A Papilio antenor in a white wood glass frame.
The Madagascar giant swallowtail, is a butterfly from the family Papilionidae. As the common name implies, it's large (12– to 14-cm wingspan) and endemic to Madagascar. It is the only species in the genus Pharmacophagus.
A beautiful Shell ball made with Cerithiidae shells, from Indonesia.
These balls are part of the Indo-Pacific cultural heritage, and from a long time tribal people use them as adornment pieces. Today they are natural and beautiful decor pieces.
Vasum Locklini - a Turbinellidae from the Caenozoic period (around 3 million years) from Florida - USA.
Always a beautiful intricate shell, mounted in a black lacquered wood base.
A beautiful Shell ball made with Strombidae shells, from Indonesia.
These balls are part of the Indo-Pacific cultural heritage, and from a long time tribal people use them as adornment pieces. Today they are natural and beautiful decor pieces.
Olenus sp. ( Trilobite ) a twin specimen in matrix, in a black granite base, from Marroco.
Big size specimen from the Devonian period ( 400/350 million years ), for collectors but also a great decor piece.
A pair of Rothchildia jacobaea in a glass vitrine with black lacquered wood base.
These are ex-pupa specimen from M.Mayr collection. From S.Gabriel - Buenos Aires Prov. Argentine.
One of the most beautiful moth, hard to find.
A beautiful glass frame with 3 speciemen of each of Charaxes brutus and C. candiope showing both sides of the wings.
Charaxes brutus, the White-barred Emperor or White-barred Charaxes, both butterfly in the family Nymphalidae.
Charaxes candiope, the Green-veined Emperor or Green-veined charaxes are very territorial and according to the Guinness World Records is the most aggressive butterfly in existence.
Charaxes with closed wings usually have incredible patterns and colours.
A beautiful Shell ball made with Cerithiidae shells, from Indonesia.
These balls are part of the Indo-Pacific cultural heritage, and from a long time tribal people use them as adornment pieces. Today they are natural and beautiful decor pieces.
Polished Orthoceras slab fossil with over 400 million years.
As these forms of prehistoric squid were covered in ocean sediments prior to fossilization, the majority of the creatures will be facing in the same relative position, having been lined up by currents on the sea floor prior to being buried. The fossils are exposed and given a high polish to better view the creatures from their surrounding matrix.
The slab features very high relief as well as dramatic texture and detail they had tentacles and ink sacs, much like present-day squid. Except for belemnites, cephalopods had external shells with hollow internal chambers separated by walls called septa. Devonian period, circa 410 million years, Anti-Atlas Mountains - Southern Morocco - mounted in a black granite base.
Papilio antimachus in a black wood frame.
Two specimen, one each side, showing the interior and the back of their magnificent wings. The African giant swallowtail, is a butterfly in the family Papilionidae. With a wingspan between 18 and 23 centimetres, it is the largest butterfly in Africa and among the largest butterflies in the world.
The wings are long and narrow and the ground color is orange brown with black markings. Papilio antimachus live in the tropical rainforests of west and central Africa. The distribution area stretches from Angola, Cameroon, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Ivory Coast, Liberia, Nigeria, Sierra Leone, and Uganda. The male is larger than the female and can be seen in groups at nectar. The females show themselves less, continually flying high above the tree tops.
The butterfly has no natural enemies because it is very toxic. This one came from Congo.
A high quality handmade glass dome with four Phoebis philea - the Orange-barred sulphur, is a species of butterfly found in the Americas, these ones are from Peru. The species eats nectar from red-colored plants and the larvae feeds on Cassia species. Mounted in a Red Moor wood piece, previously treated and harmless, for the security and prevention of any bacterial problem, it is also presented two Hebomoja glaucippe from Thailand - this particular species presents glacontryphan-M in the wings, a peptide toxin belonging to the family contryphan that is an active constituent of the poisonous venom produced by cone snail (genus Conus). In the Hebomoia glaucippe this toxin works as a defense against predators.
Ornithoptera priamus, also known as Green birdwin or New Guinea birdwing is a widespread species of birdwing butterfly found in the central and south Moluccas, New Guinea, Bismarck Archipelago, Solomon Islands, and north-east Australia.
Male are smaller and shows strong green and black colour, female are much bigger and have dark brown colour with clouds of white. Due to habitat environment deforestation this species is know in appendix II of Cites and this ones have Nº E-08191/18 Bundesamt fur Naturschutz, Bonn – Germany.
Mounted in a black glass frame.
Phacops sp. from the Middle Devonian period ( 395 million years ) of the Djebel Issoumour area, Atlas Mountains - Morocco.
Prepared and restored, excellent for beginner collectors or as decor piece, in a black lacquered wood base.
Orange Charonia variegata mounted in an acrylic base.
This rare colored piece for came from the North of Brazil coast and it is very much collectable.
A beautiful Shell ball made with Cardiidae shells, from Indonesia, mounted in form of flowers.
These balls are part of the Indo-Pacific cultural heritage, and from a long time tribal people use them as adornment pieces. Today they are natural and beautiful decor pieces.
Balanocidaris glandifera - fossil sea urchin - Carapace with radiolas, in a acrilic base.
Excellent fossil of a sea urchin in life position. The hedgehog and spines have preserved the finest details and have been carefully arranged in a living position. The radiolas preserve the original colouring patterns. It is a fossil worthy of a museum.
Sea urchin with spines up to 11 cm, from Upper Jurassic, Kimmeridgian (152.1-157.3 million years) - France.
Very special glass vitrine with three Kalima inachus, from Thailand and three Salamis anteva, from Madagascar.
The two species named as Deadleaf butterflies, because when the wings closed they look like a dead leaf and so predators don't catch them. One of each butterfly is mounted showing from the back side position to show the similarity with a dead leaf.
Vertical branch black Gorgonian in a black lacquered wood base, these medium sizes Gorgonia have a special shape and are taken by divers from Manado, North Sulawezi - Indonesia.
Handmade glass dome in a Redmoor wood brach, displaying four Chorinea faunus, from Bolivia know as Long-tailed glass wing because of is transparent wings, two Rhetus arcius, from Perú is an exceptional beautiful little butterfly and two Ancyluris formosissima, from Perú considered as well one of the most beautiful butterfly.
One of a Kind decor piece!
Fossil sea urchin - Pseudocidaris mammosa (AGASSIZ, 1840).
Excellent fossil of a sea urchin. The sea urchin and the spines finest details have been preserved and have been carefully arranged in position of life.
The radiolas preserve the original coloring patterns, worthy of a museum specimen!
Sea urchin with 10 cm spines, from Upper Jurassic, Kimmeridgian (152.1-157.3 million years) - France.
Displayed in a brass handmade stand.
A beautiful Shell ball made with Umbonium vestiarium shells, from Indonesia.
These balls are part of the Indo-Pacific cultural heritage, and from a long time tribal people use them as adornment pieces. Today they are natural and beautiful decor pieces.
Epimayaites transiens ( Ammonite ) Pair in acrylic base.
A beautiful pair of this elusive fossil specimen from the Madagascar Upper Jurassic ( +/- 170 million years ) very good aperture details.
A good collection starter.
A beautiful Shell ball made with Umbonium vestiarium shells, from Indonesia.
These balls are part of the Indo-Pacific cultural heritage, and from a long time tribal people use them as adornment pieces. Today they are natural and beautiful decor pieces.
Perisphinctes virguloides ( Ammonite ) Pair in acrylic base. A beautiful pair of this elusive fossil specimen from the Madagascar Upper Jurassic ( +/- 180 million years ) still very good structure details.
A good collection starter.
Megabalanus tintinnabulum, from Philippines, in a green high gloss wood base.
Megabalanus colonies can reach big size groups, they live attached to rocks and dead coral in watched areas, sometimes attached in boats.
That is the reason why this species can be found in all Indo-Pacific but also in some areas of South Atlantic. Due to the incredible forms and colors they make excellent bizarre decor items.
A rare Jeletzkytes spedeni Ammonite, from the Cretaceous, Maastrichian, Fox Hill formation, from 66 -72 million years old.
Very difficult to get, this is a beautiful specimen, from the the usual locality, Pennington County, South Dakota, USA
Wood glass dome with two Papilio ulysses from Ceram - Moluccan Island, a superb exclusive species with bright contrast of black and deep blue.
Papilio ulysses - popularly named as Ulysses Butterfly, Blue Mountain Swallowtail, Mountain Blue or Blue Emperor - it is a butterfly of the Papilionidae family and Papilioninae subfamily, found in the Australian biogeographic region and native to the Wallacea area and the island of Nova Guinea, Bismarck archipelago and Northern Australia.
Lambis chiragra - Spider shells, from Palawan Isl. Philippines, in dark brass base.
It's a species of very large sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Strombidae, the true conchs. The shell length for this species varies between 85 mm and 320 mm, usually to 170 mm. They have a very thick, robust and heavy shell, with a distinct anterior notch.
Its most prominent characteristic are the six long and curved marginal digitations, expanded from the flaring, thick outer lip and canals. The columella and aperture are lyrate. Female individuals are usually much larger than the male ones.
Cretolamna Aschersoni in matrix, in acrylic base.
Beautiful Lamna Aschersoni shark teeth in their natural matrix, from Cretaceous era (66.0–145.0 million years) - Oued Zem – Morocco.
Syrinx aruanius - Australian Trumpet shell in a dark brass base.
It's a species of extremely large sea snail measuring up to 91 cm long and weighing up to 18 kg. Shells over 50 cm are now impossible to obtain, specially in good condition. It is a marine gastropod mollusk in the family Turbinellidae, and is the only species in the genus Syrinx.
Cretolamna Aschersoni in matrix, in acrylic base.
Beautiful Lamna Aschersoni shark teeth in their natural matrix, from Cretaceous era (66.0–145.0 million years) - Oued Zem – Morocco.
Polished Orthoceras slab fossil with over 400 million years.
As these forms of prehistoric squid were covered in ocean sediments prior to fossilization, the majority of the creatures will be facing in the same relative position, having been lined up by currents on the sea floor prior to being buried. The fossils are exposed and given a high polish to better view the creatures from their surrounding matrix.
The slab features very high relief as well as dramatic texture and detail they had tentacles and ink sacs, much like present-day squid. Except for belemnites, cephalopods had external shells with hollow internal chambers separated by walls called septa. Devonian period, circa 410 million years, Anti-Atlas Mountains - Southern Morocco - mounted in a black granite base.
This Elisella specimen in a red flame form is a rare species of gorgonian from Leptogorgia family, found in the coast of Broome, Northwestern Australia.
Gorgons, like corals, are animals living in the form of sessile colonial polyps, organized in a tree structure. The general structure, a skeleton both flexible and hard, called gorgonin does not grow towards the sun - it does not require light to develop -, but perpendicular to the current, to filter a maximum of water flow.
These are beautiful colored specimens!
Sponge species from Madagascar reefs, mounted in a white lacquered wood base.
Sponges are beautiful decor items, due to its different shapes and colours.
Araucaria trunk piece from the famous Ambilobe Petrified forest in Madagascar.
These are formations from the Triassic period with around 220 million years.
Mounted in an acrylic base is a beautiful historic piece!
Papilio machaon - Old World Swallowtail butterfly, from Italy, in a glass dome.
The most elusive butterfly from Europe, ten specimen mounted in a handmade Redwood branch.
Beautiful One of a Kind piece.
A superb polished Haliotis assimilis tray table in satin brass. Look like a Victorian table piece.
With six Haliotis shells polished on both sides, ideal for bringing nuts or sweets to the table.
Unique One of a Kind design piece.
Papilio rumanzowia, the Red Mormon, is a butterfly of the family Papilionidae.
This fabulous dome have two pairs of male and female specimen, superb color and quality, mounted in handmade glass dome with a grey lacquered wood base.
These specimen came from Philippines.
Araucaria trunk piece from the famous Ambilobe Petrified forest in Madagascar.
These are formations from the Triassic period with around 220 million years.
Mounted in an acrylic base is a beautiful historic piece!
Heliconius doris - Doris Longwing, beautiful butterflies belonging to Nymphalidae family, from Peru.
Mounted in a Redmoor wood branch in a glass vitrine with white wood base.