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Ancient legacy of trilobite preserved in jewelry pieces

By Susan Scott

POSTED: 01:30 a.m. HST, Jan 02, 2012

~~<p>For Christmas my husband gave me five dead animals and two shark teeth topped with several tumors from tortured oysters. That man knows the way to my heart. The gifts are three pairs of earrings and a necklace, all made from marine fossils. Local artisans honored these long-gone creatures by encasing them in pearl-studded swirls of silver and gold.</p>
<p>Two of my new earrings are trilobites, marine animals that crawled, drifted and swam eons ago.</p>
~~

For Christmas my husband gave me five dead animals and two shark teeth topped with several tumors from tortured oysters. That man knows the way to my heart. The gifts are three pairs of earrings and a necklace, all made from marine fossils. Local artisans honored these long-gone creatures by encasing them in pearl-studded swirls of silver and gold.

Two of my new earrings are trilobites, marine animals that crawled, drifted and swam eons ago. Login for more...



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