Guess The Item 🤔

[looker-on]

A kind of sedimentary rock?

A gemstone?

 

[Vince]

It is a sedimentary rock (mudstone). No gemstones, but it wouldn't stop a geologist [my niece for example] from saying that the inclusions were "little gems".

 

[Grier]

was it once a plant or animal?

Are they clogs?

 

[Grier]

Is it that solidified and hard sap from a Tree, like Red Gums pretty shiny red hardened sap.
Ancient insects were caught in the sap and preserved perfectly for millions of years. Amber is its name.

A fossilised big Dragonfly I'd say, in Amber.


This Prehistoric bug in Amber looks horrible.

 

[looker-on]

It is a sedimentary rock (mudstone). No gemstones, but it wouldn't stop a geologist [my niece for example] from saying that the inclusions were "little gems".

Does that mean you want it/us to be more precise?

 

[Vince]

Grier is very close - fossil is the key word. Richie that's a nice piece of jewellery.
Devonian animal fossils about 380 million years. Older than me. 2 rocks in photo. Even the things that look like ferns are some ancient animal.
They came from a bay in Tasmania: the exact location is a sort of geologists' secret.

 

[Vince]

Does that mean you want it/us to be more precise?

Nah, we're not professional fossickers!

 

[looker-on]

Grier is very close - fossil is the key word. Richie that's a nice piece of jewellery.
Devonian animal fossils about 380 million years. Older than me. 2 rocks in photo. Even the things that look like ferns are some ancient animal.
They came from a bay in Tasmania: the exact location is a sort of geologists' secret.

Wow! To the non-geologist it looks like it should be in a museum and not in private hands. Or are there plenty of others like this one?

 

[looker-on]

Nah, we're not professional fossickers!

Who knows? You seem to be very well-versed.

 

[looker-on]

Grier is very close - fossil is the key word

What would you say is still missing then?

 

[Vince]

I was actually there and picked them up off a rocky shelf just above high tide line. Thousands of them - the stone cracks into convinient small rectangular blocks during storms and you just pick up the ones you fancy. It was like shopping. You have to scramble down a bit of a cliff and it's all invisible from the road - Australia still has its secrets!

What would you say is still missing then?

Nothing really. I was distracted by the clogs.

 

[looker-on]

Thousands of them

They might be in high demand elsewhere. Ever thought of selling them?

 

[looker-on]

Nothing really. I was distracted by the clogs.

It's Terry's turn then? Grier

 

[looker-on]

Hi Jess. J Jessica 🤗

 

[Jessica 🤗]

Hi Jess. J Jessica 🤗

Hi Thomas
I have another cold so I'm stuck indoors today.

 

[looker-on]

Hi Thomas
I have another cold so I'm stuck indoors today.

Get better soon!

 

[Jessica 🤗]

Get better soon!

Thanks
I'm gonna make some chips and curry, that'll shift it!

 

[Vince]

Large purple V was beginning to irritate me. Hi Jess.

 

[Richie]

Is it that solidified and hard sap from a Tree, like Red Gums pretty shiny red hardened sap.
Ancient insects were caught in the sap and preserved perfectly for millions of years. Amber is its name.

A fossilised big Dragonfly I'd say, in Amber.
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This Prehistoric bug in Amber looks horrible.
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Good guess.
This item is bamboozling.

 

[Grier]

My item is a simple thing found in many homes and elsewhere. Some homes have lots, some just several and some none. I have lots.
They are made from a variety of materials like wood and even metal. I have 8 metal ones given to me by my youngest daughter.

Present not to scale and not me nor my daughter.