952 g White Calcite Skull – The Canterville Ghost, Almond Blossom, Halloween – 11.0 x 7.1 x 10.0 cm Skull- 952 g
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White calcite skull meteorite named Gespenst von Canterville, weighing 952 g and measuring 11.0 × 7.1 × 10.0 cm, originating from Afghanistan.
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In 1887, Oscar Wilde sent an American family into an English haunted castle, and the ghost had no chance. For three centuries, Sir Simon de Canterville haunted the place. He had murdered his wife once, and her brothers had walled him up and left him to starve. Yet the American ambassador Hiram B. Otis’s family did not let themselves be frightened. The son rubbed out the old bloodstain in front of the fireplace with “Pinkertons Champion Stain Remover.” The father offered the spirit a lubricant for his rattling chains, and the twins pelted him with cushions, stretched tripwires, and laid him butter slides. Real blood was hard to come by, so he kept repainting the stain with his daughter’s paintbox until it finally even glowed emerald green.
Only Virginia, the fifteen-year-old daughter, pitied him. He told her about the Garden of Death: “Death must be so beautiful... To have no yesterday and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forget life, to have peace.” An old prophecy by the library window promised the house rest if a golden girl offered a prayer for the lips of sin, if the barren almond bore fruit, and if a small child gave away its tears. Virginia cried and prayed for him, and the ghost finally found his peace. She placed a cross of white and pink almond blossoms on his coffin. Later she said that he had shown her what life is, what death means, and why love is stronger than both.
This skull is a ghost entirely in keeping with the heart of this story: as white as a sheet in moonlight, yet without any fright. Its surface is lightly rough, like sandstone, and at the same time bears the purity of salt and the nurturing fullness of milk. It is a head that tells more about life than about death. A smoother line encircles it once, dividing it gently into two phases. The left half of the face shines milky and brighter, the right half is more restrained, yet no less expressive, as if haunting and peace inhabited the same form.
Its stone is calcite, i.e., calcium carbonate. From the same substance, mollusks and snails build their shells, corals their reefs, and birds the shells of their eggs. It is the building material in which life forms its cradle. A ghost made of this material cannot help but tell of life and of how love is stronger than death.
Material: Calcite (calcium carbonate); Trade name “Afghanistan Jade”
Origin: Afghanistan
Dimensions: 11.0 x 7.1 x 10.0 cm
Weight: 952 g
Special features: Milky-white calcite with a slightly rough, sandstone-like texture; a smoother band that runs once completely around the skull and divides it into a brighter, milkier left half and a more restrained right half; occasional fine pores and dark specks (natural inclusions); Care: clean only dry or with clear water, as calcite is sensitive to acids
Seller's Story
Ich lasse mich immer wieder von der Schönheit der Natur überraschen und berühren. Mineralien und Edelsteine empfinde ich als Verkörperung jener Perfektion und Harmonie, die allem Sein zugrunde liegt. In ihnen verdichtet sich die Essenz der Erde – kristallisiert für die Ewigkeit und doch in jedem Stück einzigartig.
Jedes Mineral, das ich anbiete, ist von mir persönlich ausgewählt. Nicht nach bloßem Glanz, sondern nach dem Gefühl von Wahrhaftigkeit, das es in mir hervorruft. So findet nur das seinen Weg in meine Hände – und weiter in Ihre –, was ich selbst als würdig empfinde, in seiner Schönheit weitergereicht zu werden.
In meinem Handeln leiten mich Ehrlichkeit, Sorgfalt und die Freude am Teilen dieser Schätze. Ich verstehe mich dabei weniger als Händler, sondern vielmehr als Vermittler zwischen der Natur und den Menschen, die bereit sind, ihre Geschenke mit Achtsamkeit anzunehmen.
In 1887, Oscar Wilde sent an American family into an English haunted castle, and the ghost had no chance. For three centuries, Sir Simon de Canterville haunted the place. He had murdered his wife once, and her brothers had walled him up and left him to starve. Yet the American ambassador Hiram B. Otis’s family did not let themselves be frightened. The son rubbed out the old bloodstain in front of the fireplace with “Pinkertons Champion Stain Remover.” The father offered the spirit a lubricant for his rattling chains, and the twins pelted him with cushions, stretched tripwires, and laid him butter slides. Real blood was hard to come by, so he kept repainting the stain with his daughter’s paintbox until it finally even glowed emerald green.
Only Virginia, the fifteen-year-old daughter, pitied him. He told her about the Garden of Death: “Death must be so beautiful... To have no yesterday and no tomorrow. To forget time, to forget life, to have peace.” An old prophecy by the library window promised the house rest if a golden girl offered a prayer for the lips of sin, if the barren almond bore fruit, and if a small child gave away its tears. Virginia cried and prayed for him, and the ghost finally found his peace. She placed a cross of white and pink almond blossoms on his coffin. Later she said that he had shown her what life is, what death means, and why love is stronger than both.
This skull is a ghost entirely in keeping with the heart of this story: as white as a sheet in moonlight, yet without any fright. Its surface is lightly rough, like sandstone, and at the same time bears the purity of salt and the nurturing fullness of milk. It is a head that tells more about life than about death. A smoother line encircles it once, dividing it gently into two phases. The left half of the face shines milky and brighter, the right half is more restrained, yet no less expressive, as if haunting and peace inhabited the same form.
Its stone is calcite, i.e., calcium carbonate. From the same substance, mollusks and snails build their shells, corals their reefs, and birds the shells of their eggs. It is the building material in which life forms its cradle. A ghost made of this material cannot help but tell of life and of how love is stronger than death.
Material: Calcite (calcium carbonate); Trade name “Afghanistan Jade”
Origin: Afghanistan
Dimensions: 11.0 x 7.1 x 10.0 cm
Weight: 952 g
Special features: Milky-white calcite with a slightly rough, sandstone-like texture; a smoother band that runs once completely around the skull and divides it into a brighter, milkier left half and a more restrained right half; occasional fine pores and dark specks (natural inclusions); Care: clean only dry or with clear water, as calcite is sensitive to acids
Seller's Story
Ich lasse mich immer wieder von der Schönheit der Natur überraschen und berühren. Mineralien und Edelsteine empfinde ich als Verkörperung jener Perfektion und Harmonie, die allem Sein zugrunde liegt. In ihnen verdichtet sich die Essenz der Erde – kristallisiert für die Ewigkeit und doch in jedem Stück einzigartig.
Jedes Mineral, das ich anbiete, ist von mir persönlich ausgewählt. Nicht nach bloßem Glanz, sondern nach dem Gefühl von Wahrhaftigkeit, das es in mir hervorruft. So findet nur das seinen Weg in meine Hände – und weiter in Ihre –, was ich selbst als würdig empfinde, in seiner Schönheit weitergereicht zu werden.
In meinem Handeln leiten mich Ehrlichkeit, Sorgfalt und die Freude am Teilen dieser Schätze. Ich verstehe mich dabei weniger als Händler, sondern vielmehr als Vermittler zwischen der Natur und den Menschen, die bereit sind, ihre Geschenke mit Achtsamkeit anzunehmen.
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952 g White Calcite Skull – The Canterville Ghost, Almond Blossom, Halloween – 11.0 x 7.1 x 10.0 cm
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Skull
Weight
952 g
Country of origin
Afghanistan
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