Posted 8 years ago
Peasejean55
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Hi martika, this is for you. I've decided to put a separate post up for this egg. It's interesting with all the different shapes, colours. A friend of mine seems to think that some of the marks are sea-anemones. It's very heavy, I was thinking marble? I can't remember where I bought this egg from. I've just posted some new photos taken outside. On pic number 1 and 4 you can see that stone has been inlaid very skilfully, there is a third but it wouldn't show. As anybody seen this sort of work before. I've had this egg for many years and have never really taken a interest, now I'm very interested.
Any ideas would be much appreciated
Many thanks for looking.
Very interesting! Your stone egg is full of fossils of sea creatures. I think too, it's a marble. And never saw that inlay work before on marble egg. The inlay is very obvious on the 4th picture. I will try to find more info about it.
Martika, it would be great if you found out more information on this egg, I'm most grateful for your help. Thank you.
You are more than welcome! By the way I think your friend is a quite good expert on stones! :)
Lol Martika, I shall tell him that, I'm sure he'll appreciate your comment.
Cool egg. You have there a piece of the ancient sea bed. Some of the creatures present in it are ammonites, the long ones are Orthoceras. Hope that helps.
Thank you Deano, for your help, I also think it's cool, many millions of years old. :-)
The white deposits are probably orthoceras fossils. It's unusual to see the rock polished into an egg shape.
Superb! And so unusual in egg shape as Rniederman said :-)
Find a few online. http://agetrail.com/unt/8618-6_cms_polished_orthoceras_fossil_egg_201_gms.html
https://www.google.com/search?q=polished+egg+fossils&biw=1366&bih=655&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi3j6ei4vbMAhUF4yYKHWAMAyEQ_AUIBigB#imgrc=_
Thank you for your comments and help rniederman, kyra and Dizzydave. I think this egg is now solved. :-) Dizzydave many thanks for your links.
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