3.1" Realistic Polished Coquina Stone Bear - Philippines

This is a fun, 3.1" long polished bear sculpted from coquina stone (fossil shell hash) collected in the Philippines. The stone has been meticulously shaped and polished to create this unique piece.

It stands up nicely on a flat surface.

This stone started out as a silica-rich mud full of accumulated shell fragments known as a coquina. Coquina is actually the Spanish word for cockleshells or shellfish. Coquinas accumulate in high-energy marine environments such as coastlines where currents and waves result in the abrasion, fracturing, and sorting of the shells that compose them. Over time, these shell fragments fossilized and the silica-rich mud turned into a jasper.

FOR SALE
$99 $79
DETAILS
SPECIES
Unidentified
LOCATION
Philippines
SIZE
Bear: 3.1 x 2 x 1.35"
CATEGORY
SUB CATEGORY
ITEM
#308449