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A tall Bespaq cabinet containing a collection of 16 genuine crystals, minerals and metals. Each one has a tiny readable label with its name and detailed provenance if known. The cabinet has glass sides, top and shelves, plus a small empty cupboard space at the bottom for your own additions. From left to right and top to bottom, citrine (Brazil), corundum/ ruby (India), vanadinite (Mibladen, Morocco), apatite (Madagascar), galena, sulphur (Michigan), mimetite and wulfenite (Mexico), tourmaline (Brazil), quartz (Arkansas), malachite (Zaire), sodalite (Brazil), stellerite (Mt. Gunson, Australia), azurite (Morocco), native copper (Michigan), pyrite and calcite, Missouri and turquoise. Mahogany finish
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A glass-topped Bespaq end table containing a collection of 20 genuine crystals, minerals and metals. From left to right and top to bottom, the specimens are galena, malachite, vanadinite, peridot, kyanite, unknown, sodalite, quartz, garnet (var. spessartite), fire opal, unknown, calcite with pyrite, bornite, aurichalcite, sulphur, native copper, azurite, epidote, strontianite and amazonite. Mahogany finish
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A glass-topped Bespaq coffee table containing a collection of 20 genuine crystals, minerals and metals. From left to right and top to bottom, the specimens are vanadinite, bornite, sodalite, peridot, quartz, malachite, kyanite, unknown, unknown, calcite, azurite, garnet (var. spessartite), amazonite, native copper, galena, fire opal, aurichalcite, citrine, epidote and sulphur. Mahogany finish
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A Bespaq tall chest of drawers containing a collection of 50 genuine modern sea shells and 12 fossil shells. The fossils are in the second to last drawer; the white fossils are 5.33 - 2.59 million years old (Pliocene) from Florida and the grey fossils are Devonian, about 417 - 354 million years old, from Michigan. The top of the chest lifts up to show some marine curiosities - a piece of red precious coral, a sea star, a white operculum (the shelly "door" some gastropod mollusks use to close their shells), a tusk shell and pieces of three different forms of sea fan. Mahogany finish
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A small glass Bespaq display cabinet with glass top, sides and shelf. I have filled it with a more casual arrangement of 12 shells and a sea star in the bottom and 15 crystals and minerals on the shelf. The cabinet is small enough to sit on a table or desk, as well as on the floor. Mahogany finish
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A collection of fossils in a discontinued special edition Bespaq end table. The ornate style is inspired by Boulle furniture, and the table was exclusive to the Kaye Museum of Miniatures in Los Angeles, now closed. The table is new and has a Kaye museum sticker underneath rather than a Bespaq one. The grey fossils are Devonian, 417 - 354 million years old, from Michigan; 4 different crinoid (sea lily) stem disks, bryozoans and coral, and shell fragments. The white fossils are 5.33 - 2.59 million years old (Pliocene) from Florida and are all shells, some of which are very similar to modern species but I am assured that these came from about 18 feet underground.
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