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A spectacular egg of Elephant Bird, scientific name Aepyornis Maximum.
All the pieces that compose it are part of the same egg, there are no parts added from other eggs.
Aepyornis is an extinct giant bird lived in Madagascar until the 1700s. It could reach 3 m in height and weigh more than 500 kg. The eggs were approx. 30 cm high with a circumference of 70 cm at least.

Dimensions: 310x250x250 mm
Weight: 1960 g
Dating: 1700
Origin: Madagascar

QUATERNARY-Pleistocene (0.01–2.58 million years) - Madagascar

Extinct Elephant Bird Egg, re-constructed - all fragments of the same egg - Aepyornis Maximus - 310×250×250 mm

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Fossil tooth

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Material

Silver

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Gender

Women

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Condition

Natural

Restored

Composed

Good condition

Enhanced

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Reassembled

Reconstructed

As new - unused

Good condition - used with small signs of aging & blemishes

Cast

Excellent condition - barely used with minimal signs of wear

Hand carved

Excellent condition

Very good +

Period

Cretaceous (145 - 66 million years)

Neogene, Miocene (23.03 - 5.33 million years)

Neogene (23.03 - 2.58 million years)

Paleogene, Eocene (56 - 33.9 million years)

Cretaceous, Upper (100.5 - 66 million years)

Devonian (419.2 - 358.9 million years)

Cretaceous, Lower (145 - 100.5 million years)

Jurassic (201.3 - 145 million years)

Jurassic, Lower (201.3 - 174.1 million years)

Ordovician (485.4 - 443.8 million years)

Quaternary, Pleistocene (2.58 - 0.0117 million years)

Devonian, Middle (393.3 - 382.7 million years)

Triassic (251.9 - 201.3 million years)

Carboniferous, Pennsylvanian (323.2 - 298.9 million years)

1970-1980

Cenozoic (66 - 0 million years)

Paleogene, Oligocene (33.9 - 23.03 million years)

Jurassic, Upper (163.5 - 145 million years)

Jurassic, Middle (174.1 - 163.5 million years)

Triassic, Middle (247.2 - 237 million years)

Devonian, Lower (419.2 - 393.3 million years)

Quaternary, Holocene (0.0117 - 0 million years)

Triassic, Lower (251.9 - 247.2 million years)

Permian (298.9 - 251.9 million years)

Neogene, Pliocene (5.33 - 2.58 million years)

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No laboratory report

Non-CITES species

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Paleolithic

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Marquise

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White

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Amethyst

Mineral form

Geode

After 2000

Before 1400

1900-2000

Treatment

Polished

Conserved

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Adjustable

54 (EU) / 14 (IT) / 6 ¾ (US)

53 (EU) / 13 (IT) / 6 ¼ (US)

Large (18 - 18.5 cm)

Pearl surface quality

Lightly spotted

Pearl luster

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