Nearly 40 years ago I walked in to the Ukrainian Gift Shoppe in St. Paul, Minnesota, and walked out with several beautiful eggs. Thus starts a collection. Only a few are highly valuable, but they are all prized and enjoyed
Sunday, May 12, 2013
EMU
These Emu eggs are fascinating. Not too much smaller than the Ostrich, but a dark avocado color. The photo looks more black, but that's dark green you're looking at. Scratch the surface and you get a light green. Keep scratching and you'll work thru 7 layers of color to a white before you scratch thru. I understand the aborigines in Australia do it with stone. Takes a while. Took me hours to do one and I used a dermal tool. Bought this here in Colorado. A gentleman in North Denver, Adams county was raising Emu's. They are a funny looking bird and the feathers they grow have three spines to them, soft and misty feeling.
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