I found some wonderful Dinosaur Bone in my shop the other day. This finding rocks in my shop is not unusual, but finding such spectacular, jewelry grade, d-bone was really exciting.
Closeup of red dinosaur Bone showing agatized cells.
I am not expert enough to tell what dinosaur the bones are from, nor do I really care, but I can testify that this stuff makes wonderful jewelry. I pride myself on offering the most unusual quality stone wire jewelry on the internet.
I recall buying this material in Quartzite in January this year. At the time I thought this was the highest quality d-bone I ever saw. The colors are spectacular. The red pieces I have are deep crimson red with black between the cells. If you look at an individual cell with a magnifying device you see that each cell is an individual agate. Jewelry grade red is considered the hallmark for dinosaur bone, and is the most popular color.
You can tell the exceptional quality by the bone’s solidity and its’ ability to take a glass-like polish. Another piece of dinosaur bone I found is large celled with multi-colored agate cells. Each cell is an individual fortification (banded) agate. This bone is mustard yellow with floating red agates floating within it.
D-bone pendant
It is very hard to find this quality anymore as Dinosaur Bone, being a vertebrate animal, has not been legally collected in years. This bone was from a very old and famous collection, legally collected many years ago. All the bone I have is well documented. Amateur fossil hunters can be arrested for collecting dinosaur bone on BLM and federal lands. Current laws lean toward the scientific value of dinosaur bone versus the aesthetic value. This was not the case many years ago. If you found the bone, you could keep it.
Rare colored dinosaur bone
Closeup showing detailed agate cell structure.
Ordinary dino bone-nice but less colorful
Enjoy these pictures of my dinosaur bone jewelry.