Beautiful Vintage Nazca Lines Incised Stone early staffordshire 14 pounds of stone

14 pounds of stone

and the smiling ghosts

Quite a remarkable document of the time

with a small nick at the right lower corner

Another type of thing I can never leave behind--handmade paper dolls

Beautiful Vintage Nazca Lines Incised Stone early staffordshire 14 pounds of stoneQuite a good one to add to the curated rock pile or set on the desk or carry around in one's pocket. I believe the incised eight legged creature is based on ancient Nazca Lines a group of geoglyphs created between 500 BC and 500 AD in the soil of the Nazca Desert in southern Peru. This came from the estate of a collector who travelled extensively in Central and South America and I'm guessing picked it up as a souvenir of sorts somewhere not ancient,