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 Post subject: Can someone tell me if this is a amber fossil stone
PostPosted: Fri Apr 27, 2018 12:06 am 
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Also, is this worth anything? It’s about the size of my entire center palm...around 3” long 2” wide, and maybe 1/2 pound or less. You can see very distinctly in other photos, many sets of claws all along the border of the stone and the actual nails of the claws are poking through in some areas..it’d pretty crazy. From what I can see in person, there are multiple creatures inside of this stone, multiple multiple....


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 Post subject: Re: Can someone tell me if this is a amber fossil stone
PostPosted: Fri Apr 27, 2018 4:14 pm 
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No, this is an agate. It is worth 5-10 dollars.

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PostPosted: Fri Apr 27, 2018 5:17 pm 
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A few more are pictured here:
https://www.google.com/search?client=fi ... 8LLuqPJWwQ


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