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Back from Tucson with many marvelous things:
More carved skulls from Indonesia...Indonesian carvers take animal skulls that are not 'perfect' enough to have educational value (missing dentition, poor bone quality) and turn them into art using their generations-old carving skills. Each skull is a one-of-a-kind art piece.
Scrap metal dinosaurs - The Bone Room has always been about recycling, and we are continuing the tradition. Recognizable 'dinosaurs' fashioned from discarded nuts, screws, springs, and other metal bits.
And still more recycled art - these colorful African rubber bracelets are made from used floor mats. Ingenious.
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Does this count as recycled art? Lava skulls, carved from black pumice. A little treat for the tiki-minded.
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And - since Tucson is (partly) a fossil show, we did pick up some 'new' fossils (our favorite oxymoron)
And now, a word from Bone Room Texas:
And now, a word from Bone Room Texas:
BONE ROOM TEXAS
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Ron Cauble, founder of The Bone Room, was obsessed with inclusions in amber. At Fossil and Mineral Shows he would typically be found seated at an amber dealer's booth, a great pile of amber pieces before him, peering through a loupe at the world inside each piece.
Over the years, some of the pieces were sold to collectors and scientists (most notably, to George Poinar, recognized amber expert and author) - but Ron was always a better collector than salesman, and his collection grew to museum backroom proportions.
Finally we are getting a good start on cataloging and photographing his enormous collection of amber and copal, and offering this work of love and obsession to the public. We think Ron would approve.
Over the years, some of the pieces were sold to collectors and scientists (most notably, to George Poinar, recognized amber expert and author) - but Ron was always a better collector than salesman, and his collection grew to museum backroom proportions.
Finally we are getting a good start on cataloging and photographing his enormous collection of amber and copal, and offering this work of love and obsession to the public. We think Ron would approve.
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