Human skull carved from a black (metal-rich) meteorite... Lot 30

Human skull carved from a black (metal-rich) meteorite known as Ghubara found in the Sultana of Oman. Note the natural position on the upper right incisor of a concentration of metal seeming to reveal a "silver" tooth. Ghubara is a Chondrite type meteorite whose exposure age, i.e. the time elapsed between its separation from the asteroid which is its parent body, is 9 to 28 million years Dim. 110 x 70 mm and 80 mm height for 1075 g.