Tarantula Brooch

The Tarantula Brooch consists of gold, diamonds, rubies, sapphires and an orange-red horse conch pearl. This 27 mm long pearl creates the head of the tarantula and the legs consist of gold and diamonds.

A Horse Conch is a snail that originates in the southeastern United States and northeastern Mexico. They are extremely common in Florida and has become Florida’s state shell.

Horse Conch

The designer, Stefan Hemmerle from Munich, Germany, designed this brooch as a shoulder brooch so that it actually gave off the image of a tarantula crawling on a shirt.

tarantula brooch

The Tarantula Brooch has traveled all over the world in an exhibition called, “Pearls: A Natural History.” This exhibit was organized by the American Museum of Natural History in New York and has traveled within the United States, as well as Canada, France and Australia.

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