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Rainbow Bands Ammonite Pendantby ~Nambroth

Artisan Crafts / Jewelry / Necklaces & Pendants

Here is an ammonite carefully wrapped in Argentium Sterling silver. Ammonites are so cool, I can't stop looking at them!

Ammonites are a fossil and often a gemstone too! They are an extinct type of marine animal in the cephalopod family (today their closest relatives are thought to be cuttlefish, octopus and squid). They lived during the days of the dinosaurs and these fossils are millions of years old. Sometimes when the fossil formed, the geological process caused the aragonite within to from into layers, which causes the light to interfere with the structure and creates fantastic opal rainbow colors. These are often cut into gemstones called ammolites. This is not ammolite, but a solid fossil ammonite- it's NOT a hollow shell like a seashell, but full of fossil rock! It's heavier than it looks.

FAQ stuff, please read before asking:

- Yes! I do sell these! They are for sale in my online shop: [link]

-I hand wrap these pieces with nothing more than my fingers and some bitty pliers.
-I purchase the stones already cut and polished from rock and gem shows.
-My silver is purchased directly from a precious metals silver refinery.
-I use several different gauge and shaped wires in each piece.
-My methods are unplanned and haphazard and I do not plan on creating tutorials on how to make these. If you want to learn wire-wrapping there are already some good tutorials out there if you search on Google.</B>

Thanks for looking.

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*Quilsnap Nov 27, 2012 General Artist

thats what I did with mine

~lbi316 Jul 28, 2012

Absolutely amazing!!!

~MellieMasterPrime Apr 4, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

this would be beautiful beach jewellary!

~WolfWalker Apr 3, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Oh my goodness, both the fossil and the wire wrapping are beautiful and amazingly cool! I love ammonites. ^^ If I had the extra money, I would buy one of these in a heartbeat. Maybe in the future... Good luck with your sales in the meantime!

~Nehbucadnezzar Jan 6, 2012

wow, this is aaawesome and featured in my journal (with yopur permission i hope).

~bonefish Dec 24, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

I'm a fan of all your jewelry pieces, and I'm especially keen on the fossil ones. Such a cool idea and executed so well. Love the oceanic "waves" of silver at the top; they complement the ammonite.