Another piece of driftwood that looks like a bird. A flamingo?

    A vertibrate from a small whale or dolphin?
    I found it on the beach on Whitsunday Island, North Queensland.

    A tooth from a Sperm Whale.
    I have no idea where or when I got this.

    A 40 million year old shark tooth from Morocco.
    Apparently they find a lot of these in quarries.

    A gruesome piece of bone with some meat still attached?
    Something I picked up from the butcher?
    No, a piece of sandstone.

    An Ancient Egyptian amulet.
    The amulet is ancient, the necklace part is new.

    An old pottery shard I sometimes use as an ashtray.
    So what, you say? Well I dug it up at Dendara, Egypt
    and it probably dates back to the 1st century A.D.
    A 2000 year old ashtray - that has to be unusual !

    A container made from hyena skin, so I was told.
    I keep a piece of musk in it.
    I got these at a local market in a small town in Morocco.

    A bullet left over from the Viet Nam war made into a cigarette lighter.
    Perhaps someone can identify it from the markings on the bottom.

    An old railway spike I found in Namibia.
    From the days of British colonialism in southern Africa.

    An ostrich egg I bought in Namibia.
    You can buy eggs like this nicely painted but they're pretty eggspensive.
    I have plans to paint a nice San bushmen motif - one day.
    Anyone for bacon and egg?

    A fake Zippo lighter I bought in Saigon. It cost me US$2 bargained down from $4.
    Some sellers will try to convince you that these lighters were issued to U.S. soldiers
    during the war, but they're fakes made for tourists.
    They're actually fairly well made except for the felt in the fluid chamber which doesn't
    hold the lighter fluid for very long. You have to refill it every other day !
    You don't know you're alive until "you're locked death in the face"!
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