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Navette ring c.1790 set with a beautiful specimen fossil taken from an early c19th brooch..

High carat gold,engraved shoulders.Typical navette mourning ring type.

Size 8.5.

The 'spotted agate' is actually fossilised palm wood or palmoxylon, an extinct genus of palm known in the fossil record from the Late Cretaceous to the Miocene.

Used in jewellery from the late Georgian period though very rarely found.

The V and A has a great collection of specimen agates including examples of palmoxylon.

https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O450658/specimens/

Petrified palmwood includes a group of fossil woods that contain prominent rod-like structures within the regular grain of the silicified wood creating a unique spotted decoration.

Fossilised Palmwood Navette

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