Fossil Jewelry: 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 Line quarries of northwest Ohio, uncovering Devonian 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 as wearable art, transformed into jewelry and cast in metals such as copper, silver, and gold.
Each piece from the Sylvania Line is crafted from Devonian fossils we personally collected—never sourced, never replicated. These are not imitations, but sacred remnants of Earth’s own history, transformed into wearable art that is held in the hand and worn at the heart.
This collection honors both the memory of those quiet days spent digging for Devonian fossils with my family, and the greater story of life on Earth. Here, nature becomes talisman, and the ancient, like the Sylvania Line, becomes intimate, transforming into wearable art.