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Tasmanian Serpentine and Stichtite
Also known as "Atlantisite" this beautiful rare combination of Serpentine (green) and Stitchtite (purple) minerals are only found on Tasmania'...
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Opal is an amazing gem and is highly underrated ,not only is opal all the colours of the rainbow it also appears differently when viewed under dif...
Read moreWe are at Salamanca Market
The Rare and Beautiful has had a site at Salamanca Market for the last 8 years .Salamanca is Tasmania's No 1 tourist attraction. Our stall has a ...
Read moreWe are in Vogue Australia this month.
Check out the April edition of Vogue Australia. A selection of our tribal jewellery collection was chosen for an amazing article on supermodel an...
Read moreTasmanian Tektite - Darwin Glass
Darwin Glass is an impactite tektite 800 odd thousand years ago a large meteorite hit the west coast of Tasmania . Due to the heat and pressure...
Read moreHobart Antiques Fair
This Is our last day of trading at the Hobart Antiques Fair which is held in the stunning old City Hall. We have had some fun over the past 6 days...
Read moreA hard slog to Lamalera
My friend Kim Akerman Is an interesting guy. I told him we were visiting east Indonesia and he suggested we visit Lamalera village on Lembata I...
Read moreTravel Adventure in Burma (Myanmar)
Mytchinya had only just opened to tourists a couple of months before so I decided to have a look around. I was traveling with my mate Dave and he w...
Read moreDigging for Tasmanian Fossil Fern
Mosquitoes, midges, flies,funnel web spiders, leeches,wasps and tiger snakes. Just a part of the experience of searching for the elusive Lune river...
Read moreWE ARE ONLINE !!!!!
Our website is up and were both super excited, we have been really busy sorting through boxes of goodies. Our more than 30 years of passionate coll...
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