a enceptionally rare beautiful Bird Feather
in an authentic Dominican amber gemstone
$4,500.00 No Reserve
DRFeather


 

 


a enceptionally rare Bird Feather
in an authentic Dominican amber gemstone
$4,500.00 No Reserve
DRFeather

This Dominican Amber gemstone contains a superbly preserved enceptionally rare Bird Feather. This is only the 3rd feather we have seen in Dominican amber, a very rare find.
From Weitschat and Wichard "Comparative studies by Bachofen-Echt suggest that the Tertiary amber forest was probably populated by passerines (Sitta - nuthatches, Parus - tits), woodpeckers and representatives of the genus Momotus, which today occur in Central and South America. These insectivorous birds nest in trees..."

This beautiful amber specimen is offered here for $4,500.00 No Reserve complete satisfaction guaranteed. To view photos and videos of our some of our amber excavations in the blue amber mines in mountains of the Dominican Republic and to see a small java applet of the amber mines click here - (opens in a new browser window). Our amber comes direct from the Dominican Republic amber mines east of the world famous La Toca amber mine. These specimens do not go through any middle men, we acquire these specimens from the miners and mine owners directly at the amber mines.



 In the Dominican Republic, Hymenaea trees are called algarrobo. The Hymenaea tree exudes vast amounts of resin which over millions of years of pressure hardens into amber. Generally amber is found because a landslide along a steep slope in the mountains exposes veins of black lignite. If the lignite contains amber it is gradually extracted by digging along the vein with picks and shovels. After the amber is found it is chiseled by hand out of the shaft walls, put into burlap sacks and passed out of the mine where it is separated from the rock by machete. Larger chunks of amber make it possible to view inclusions almost immediately by holding the amber up to sunlight to determine if a large inclusion has been discovered. Fossil bearing amber is polished locally.


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