Curiosities & Oddities.

A hollow root of glass made by a single strike of lightning in dune sand, gathered in the American Southwest: petrified lightning, rough outside and smooth as poured wax within.

$64.00

A blue morpho, farm-raised in Costa Rica, its wings spread five inches behind UV-filtered glass: a blue made of light rather than pigment, and the soul's old emblem, held mid-fligh

$54.00

Six old keys, no two alike, on a plain iron ring: iron and brass, mostly English and American, mid-1800s to early 1900s, each with the soft darkness of a century of pockets.

$18.00

One amethyst geode from southern Brazil, split into matched halves, ground flat and felted at the base, toothed with violet crystal inside and heavy enough to hold a full shelf of

$76.00

A resin cast of a raven's skull, taken from a real specimen mold and true to the millimeter, every suture and the fine texture of the bill in matte, faintly aged ivory.

$46.00

A bismuth crystal grown, not carved, into stairstep, hollow-square terraces, its oxide skin shifting through blue, gold and violet like oil on a puddle.

$22.00

Twelve glassed compartments in a dark-stained wooden drawer, each holding one small wonder such as mica, sea glass or amethyst, labeled by hand in fading copperplate: a very small

$96.00

A glossy, root-beer-brown fossil shark tooth from Morocco's ancient seabed, likely ten to twenty million years old, every serration still intact.

$14.00

A six-inch brass sun, earth and moon on a turned wooden base: turn the small side crank and the little heavens move, geared true to the ratio of time.

$120.00

A trilobite curled in dark Moroccan stone, some 390 million years old, its compound eyes still legible under a loupe.

$38.00

A gaffed brass coin with the same proud eagle on both faces, weighted to pass for ordinary: a lucky pocket-piece that can only ever land one way.

$18.00

A single fossilized whale vertebra from Morocco's Miocene sea beds, about ten million years old, ochre and gray mineral where bone once was, and entirely one of one.

$68.00

Five hand-blown apothecary bottles in amber and cobalt glass, corked and labeled in old druggist's script: artisan reproductions of the vials that once lined a chemist's shelves.

$45.00

A raw pyrite cluster from the clay mines of Navajún, Spain: brassy cubes intergrown at sharp, near-perfect right angles, fool's gold from one of the few places known for cubes like

$22.00

A single Madagascan ammonite, sawn through its spiral and polished into two mirrored halves: the chambered shell of a sea creature some 150 million years old.

$26.00

A farm-raised luna moth, Actias luna, pale sea-green with long trailing tails and moon-shaped eyespots, preserved under glass in a slim wooden frame after its natural week of life.

$38.00

Nine small drawers, each with a brass knob, a felt lining and a handwritten label: a fern fossil, a chip of iron meteorite, a shark's tooth turned to stone, and other quiet marvels

$120.00