Ancient Treasures

Website:  http://www.AncientTreasures.ca
Email Address:      sales@ancienttreasures.ca

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WELCOME TO ANCIENT TREASURES

Welcome to Ancient Treasures! Each piece of our handcrafted petrified wood jewelry is fashioned out of fragments of the world’s oldest fossilized woods. These are pre-historic gems - ancient treasures - left behind by time and nature, and polished to gemstone quality. Rugged chunks of Nova Scotia Petrified Wood are collected, shaped and then tumbled for weeks, exposing the rich colors and timeless wood grains, and creating a flawless, high-gloss finish. Order your own unique piece of this magnificent Island’s geological history today.

ABOUT US

Ancient Treasures is owned and operated by Chuck and Joyce Nicholson of Cape Breton Island (Nova Scotia, Canada). Chuck Nicholson is a Mineral Technologist by profession and a retired Instructor of Geology at Cape Breton University, while Joyce has owned and operated a number of small businesses throughout the metro area. Since their marriage in 1999, they have spent every summer camping, hiking and kayaking the beautiful Island they call home.

It was a particular passion for prospecting that led to the discovery of an outstanding petrified wood deposit that they believe to be among the oldest in the world. Other exciting finds are a large unidentified ‘rib cast’ and a fossilized vertebrae from a labrynthadont (a large pre-historic lizard). Both can be viewed in their "Pictures" gallery on this website.

These ‘empty nesters’ soon began handcrafting finely polished chunks of fossilized wood into one-of-a-kind pieces. In 2001, Ancient Treasures was formed and they began selling unique, petrified wood jewelry exclusively to cruise ship passengers from across the globe at downtown Sydney's Marine Terminal. This cottage industry has grown enormously since then to include craft fairs across the Maritimes and internet sales to clients in Canada, the United States and Europe.

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We accept Paypal, Visa, Master Card, American Express

We ship worldwide...

For Local Customers in the Sydney, NS area, we will

GIFT WRAP and deliver

FREE of CHARGE.

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Affiliations

Nova Scotia Government Gift Bank

One Government Place, Halifax, NS

Registered, Registry of Joint Stock Companies
Nova Scotia

Juried Member, Cape Breton Centre for Craft and Design
http://www.capebretoncraft.com
Sydney, Nova Scotia

Member, NS Designer Craft Council
Halifax, Nova Scotia

Member, The Canadian Trade Commissioner Service
International Trade Canada

Juried Member, Signatures Craft Shows Ltd,  Ottawa, On
http://www.signatures.ca

Artists in Canada