The Sylvania Line
Sacred Remnants From A Forgotten Ocean.
From the 1970s through the early 2000s, my father, two brothers, and I explored the Sylvania quarries of northwest Ohio, uncovering fossils laid down over 380 million years ago. These trilobites, brachiopods, and coral fragments, preserved in the soft shale of the Silica Formation, are among the finest Devonian fossils in the world. Once buried beneath a vast inland sea, they now emerge—transformed into jewelry and cast in metals as copper, silver, and gold.
Each piece from the Sylvania Line is created using fossils we personally collected—never sourced, never replicated. These are not imitations, but sacred remnants of Earth’s own history, held in the hand, worn at the heart.
This collection honors both the memory of those quiet days spent digging with my family, and the greater story of life on Earth. Here, nature becomes talisman. The ancient becomes intimate.