Make an offer on Paua Shell Pendants on auction today.
Paua is the Māori name given to three species of large edible sea snails, known in the USA as abalone, and in the UK as ormer shells.
The shell is oval. While the exterior is often covered with greyish incrustations, the interior layer of shell is an iridescent swirl of intense green, blue, purple, and sometimes pink colours.
A sample of what’s available:
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THREE NATURAL LARGE SHELL PENDANT AAA1800
AAAgems |
15.00 |
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7 hours 2 minutes |
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NATURAL LARGE SHELL PENDANT AAA1801
AAAgems |
6.95 |
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7 hours 2 minutes |
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PARCEL 3 NATURAL PAUA SHELL PENDANT AAA1785
AAAgems |
15.00 |
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7 hours 7 minutes |
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PARCEL 3 NATURAL PAUA SHELL PENDANT AAA1784
AAAgems |
15.00 |
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7 hours 7 minutes |
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PARCEL 3 NATURAL PAUA SHELL PENDANT DOUBLE SIDED AAA1786
AAAgems |
15.00 |
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7 hours 22 minutes |
Tektite pendants are on auciton at jewelry-auctioned.com.
What makes tektites so unusual is that they are caused by the impact of meteorites on the earth’s surface. They aren’t meteorites themselves, but were rather superheated when the meteorite struck, and when cooling turned into glass.
Tektites are found in a strewnfield – an area around a location where a gigantic metorite is known to have struck.
The strewnfields are:
European strewnfield (Nördlinger Ries, Germany, age: 15 million years):
Moldavites (Czech Republic, green)
Australasian strewnfield (no associated crater identified has yet been identified):
Australites (Australia, dark, mostly black)
Indochinites (South East Asia, dark, mostly black)
Chinites (China, black)
North American strewnfield (Chesapeake Bay impact crater, USA, age: 34 million years):
Bediasites (USA, Texas, black)
Georgiaites (USA, Georgia, green)
Ivory Coast strewnfield (Lake Bosumtwi Crater, Ghana, age: 1 million years):
Ivorites (Ivory Coast, black)