TOSCANO SALVINO

Unici di Liguria - I Maremmani

 

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Toscano Salvino lives to Induno Olona , a nice village near Varese , and has a deep passion for stones ; he searched them not only near his home but even in Sardinia , because his wife is original of that beauty island .

In the picture above you can see Toscano and even in background some Russian Icons painted by his wife ,who has the passion of this hobby  .

Here we begin the stones with schists coming from Sardinia island (they are flat and not cut) :

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( Please excuse the dark pictures , we haven't a good light that day ).

 

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Now we will see another kind of stones ( dolomite ) which is situated only in Varese area , Enjoy :

 

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This kind of material is difficult to dig up because it is very brittle and it is placed deeply ; only a few collectors know where there is the veine and it is dangerous to collect it because it is near to precipices :

 

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Like you can see above , Toscano Salvino has even classical Palombini in his collection .

 

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          The first stone to left is a very hard kind of material : obsidian .

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