This is Throwback Thursday #278. In these, we look back into the past at ESCONI specifically and Earth Science in general. If you have any contributions, (science, pictures, stories, etc …), please send them to esconi.info@gmail.com. Thanks! email:esconi.info@gmail.com.

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ESCONI was more active in lapidary in the past.  Until the early 2010s, there was a Lapidary Study Group.  Sheila Bergmann was the study group chairman for many years.  The pieces shown below are silver castings and silver plated from the Dave and Sheila Bergmann collection.  There’s a few calymene trilobites and various tully monsters.  The bola tie worn by the ESCONI president features a large trilobite on the clasp and a trilobite and a tully monster at the end of the tips.

Bola Tie

Small Trilobite

Tullies

State Fossil