160 g, 6.30 x 4.90 cm

160.00 grams heavy genuine tiger eye skull - fantastic carving! Premium skull of fine fantastic morbid art - alchemical tiger eye skull with fine chatoyance "with living death eyes" a very fine piece - faithfully worked - in this quality and mineral layering rare - tiger eye was used in alchemical laboratories to create the Philosopher's Stone and to produce gold 160 g 6.30 x 4.90 x 4.20 cm - Tiger eye: the golden-yellow to brown layers show a wonderful chatoyance: The absolute highlight of this piece is the pronounced chatoyance (also known as the cat's eye effect). When light hits the surface, a golden, silky-shimmering stripe travels across the mineral – similar to the pupil of a big cat. This effect arose through a fascinating pseudomorphosis: originally parallel-grown crocidolite fibers (a hornblende-asbestos type) were replaced over millions of years by crystal-clear quartz (silica). The fine fibrous structure remained perfectly preserved. Embedded iron hydroxide (limonite) gives the stone its world-famous honey-yellow to golden-brown coloration. This piece comes from very deep rock layers. The age of the host rock is estimated to be Precambrian – this stone is thus an impressive 1.5 to 2 billion years old. You are holding a genuine piece of prehistory in your hands!

Estimate:£0.84

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