She Sold Seashells -The Curious Mary Anning. Re-Imagined. By Wolfgang Grulke Faceted Moss Agate Polished Freeform

Moss Agate Polished Freeform

Pink Amethyst

approximately: 9 cm x 5

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She Sold Seashells -The Curious Mary Anning. Re-Imagined. By Wolfgang Grulke Faceted Moss Agate Polished FreeformMary Anning lived about 200 years ago. A bright girl from a poor family living in a small town on the south coast of England, she became a successful fossil hunter, dealer and self taught scientist. While not fully recognised in her own lifetime because she was a woman and of the wrong social class, she is now heralded as a leading figure in the science of paleontology, which at the time did not even have a name. Her story is well known but there is