Mammoth leg bone, 50,000 years old, turning heads at Palm Beach Show
Pulled from the North Sea, the bone is among the geological art treasures brought to the Palm Beach County Convention Center by the Stone Gallery, based in the Netherlands.
”What the (expletive)!”
That’s the reaction heard by many visitors this weekend at The Palm Beach Show when they turn the corner and see the 8-foot high hind bone of a 50,000-year-old woolly mammoth inside the exhibit booth of Amsterdam-based Stone Gallery.
The annual Palm Beach Show is all about fine art and jewelry and antiques and design, with more than 130 exhibitors hawking paintings and pendants and handbags and 15th-century armor.
So, imagine strolling past walls with Picassos and Warhols, glass cases of Cartier necklaces, and then turning the corner to see a booth with a mammoth leg bone and a 12-foot fossil of an ancient pregnant sea creature and the skull of a woolly rhino.
“People are totally astonished,’’ said Nathalie Petersen, an interior designer with Stone Gallery.
I spent time Saturday morning with Stone Gallery owner Roy Masin, who explained why there’s a market among collectors for geological art like bones and fossils and meteorites. You can read the story by clicking this link.
But it’s another experience to see the geological art up close — and to stand in the shadow of an 8-foot high mammoth bone. The Palm Beach Show runs through Tuesday at the Palm Beach County Convention Center in downtown West Palm Beach.
Here is a sneak peek.
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