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Here’s a lovely little set of 4 metasequoia pine cones from the Cretaceous Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota. Their closest living relatives today ...

This is a specimen of chlorite we collected during one of our regular forays to Mineral Hill. Mineral Hill was a former copper mine, and many copper o...

This is an intriguing specimen from a collection curated in the 1960s. It even had Zimbabwe’s older colonial name “Rhodinia” on the old label! Petalit...

Pirate glass is one of the oldest and rarest types of sea glass you can collect, and date as far back as the late 1600s. The name comes from the fact ...

A parcel of dark amber river glass from the banks of the Patapsco River. This glass dates from the late 19th to early 20th Century, is nice and thick ...

Paleosmunda 25mm sphere. This is a type of tree fern from the Upper Permian of Australia. Has some truly spectacular pattern and structure to it. Grea...

Huge smoky black Metalegoceras from the Permian of West Timor, Indonesia. Nicely prepped and polished and ready for your display or personal collectio...

A pair of Eldredgeops rana from the Devonian Mahantango Formation of Gore, VA.

Fossil echinoid from Cretaceous sediments of the Western Interior Seaway. Alas this came in a box of assorted fossils, so I am unsure of specific form...

Mazon Creek is a magical place, a Carboniferous lagerstätte from a time well before the dinosaurs, where seagull-sized dragonflies flitted through dra...

These came in an old fossil box from a collector out in the Midwest. Unfortunately, he threw all these fossil finds into one box. I often collect old,...

A nice piece of Baltimore gneiss. Dating to the Precambrian period, it is quite old indeed. And I do love old rocks. Great piece of Baltimore’s (pre)h...

These are alternately called “devil’s dice” or “Jack rocks”. What these actually are are pseduomorphs of limonite after pyrite, which gives them their...

So, I’m currently going through my latest Patapsco River foray, and ended up collecting quite a bit of neat material, including archeological slag in ...