Fossil Face! folk art flour mill with the lovely star made

with the lovely star made of inlaid mother of pearl bits at center still firmly in place

This guy was surely once attached to a string

proudly perched

the color in it is just terrific

Fossil Face! folk art flour mill with the lovely star madeI found this one in one of my favorite shops in New Hampshirea place that feels like a cabinet of curiosities, modern, antique, and ancient, including lots of specimens decommissioned from old science departments and the like. I dont know much about fossil identification, but this rock certainly looks to me as if capturing the impressions of a whole lot of small shells what immediately struck me, though, is that it looks very much like a face in