I WILL BE LISTING MORE OF THE RARE AND UNIQUE JEWELLERS LITTLE ESTATE MUSEUM KAURI AMBER /PIECES, ANOTHER PIECE OF THE FINEST MUSEUM KAURI AMBER/GUM FROM THEIR RARE VICTORIAN MINIATURES ART CABINETS SO FAR CABINET NUMBER RJ 35219, THIS LISTING OF THE ESTATE MUSEUMS IS A LOVELY CARVED PIECE OF VERY HARD SWAMP KAURI AMBER / GUM ABOUT ( 400 - 600 YEARS OLD ) CUT AND POLISHED IN A CHAMFERED TRIANGLE THIS SWAMP KAURI AMBER/GUM IS A VERY SIGNIFICANT SPECIMEN PIECE FROM THE ESTATE MUSEUM AND HAS A WHITE STONE BLOCK AS A BASE TO DISPLAY ON. These special pieces of kauri amber would be perfect for anyone collecting Museum quality cut and polished Kauri amber/ gum. Included with each piece is the moving written verse from the museum collection. Pictures were taken in light from a widow showing the various colours of the Kauri amber/gum and on a white cloth background. This stunning ancient shaped miniature pillars from their cabinets is a late Victorian Kauri amber/gum piece gathered by a gum digger named Pavletich then cut, polished and shaped as a specimen pillar, stunning various dark colours of red, orange and yellow with darker pieces within, these were bought by the estates Grandfather from a collection of Kauri items from a collector in Auckland in the late 1950's for the estates Museum display of miniature Kauri amber/gum items and the diary notes from the estate also mention they were probably cut and polished by the Dalmation gum digger named Pavletich circa 1890--1900. Of interest is that the first recorded use of sandpaper was in 13th-century China when crushed shells, seeds, and sand were bonded to parchment using natural gum. Glass paper was invented in London 1883 by John Oakey and Victorians used to polish things like Kauri amber. Please view the many pictures. POSTAGE IS NZ POST WITH TRACKING IS $7.50 .