These are a wonderful pair of Marston Magna marble bookends featuring stylized ammonite fossils. They each measure approximately 7″(h) x 4″(w) x 2″(d) and each weighs almost 4 lbs which gives them significant heft to support books. Ammonites were shelled cephalopods that died out about 66 million years ago, fossils of them are found all around the world, sometimes in very large concentrations. The village of Marston Magna in Somerset, southwest England has long been celebrated as the source of the decorative ‘Marston Magna Ammonite Marble’, a name given to lenticular limestone concretions crowded with small ammonites of genera such as Promicroceras Spath and Asteroceras Hyatt.
Ammonite Fossil and Marble Bookends, Pair
$175.00
A wonderful pair of Marston Magna marble bookends featuring stylized ammonite fossils.
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These are a wonderful pair of Marston Magna marble bookends featuring stylized ammonite fossils. They each measure approximately 7″(h) x 4″(w) x 2″(d) and each weighs almost 4 lbs which gives them significant heft to support books. Ammonites were shelled cephalopods that died out about 66 million years ago, fossils of them are found all around the world, sometimes in very large concentrations. The village of Marston Magna in Somerset, southwest England has long been celebrated as the source of the decorative ‘Marston Magna Ammonite Marble’, a name given to lenticular limestone concretions crowded with small ammonites of genera such as Promicroceras Spath and Asteroceras Hyatt.
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