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18th-century Italian church textiles with authentic gold leaf thread overlapped with Sabina Fay Braxton gilded gaufrage velvet encased in lucite stands

18th century Florentine frame with an antique mercury mirror and 18th century Italian fragments decorated with Herkimer diamonds

6" high x 2

Each detail looks as though it organically grew from the fragment artifact — perfecting the art of illusion and evoking man-made evolution

Found 300 feet deep in coal mines in a narrow seam of shale lying on top of the coal vein

J923 google 18th-century Italian church textiles withBleached turtle shell with calcite crystals in matrix and fossil shells. 12. 5" high x 7" wide x 4. 5" deep.