Onyx Chess Set / Red Onyx and Fossil / 12″ x 12″ / Stone Chess Board and Pieces

12″ x 12″ Red Onyx and Fossil Marble Chess set. Beautiful Onyx made in Pakistan. Comes with case for easy storage.

Onyx is a type of chalcedony which in itself is a type of microcrystalline quartz. Onyx Stone is a gemstone most associated with the layers of white banding but also found with colors such as green, red and brown. Onyx has a long history of being a great stone for carving and it’s uses in jewelry.

From Las Bel Area, Baluchistan, Pakistan. These late Mesozoic marine fossils are 240 million years old and lived in the Tethys Sea between the colliding sub-continents of Pakistan-India and Asia. The matrix that cements the fossils together is fragments of other fossils broken up in the surf prior to its lithification into limestone. The circular fossils with internal radiating dividers are corral. The chambered fossils are snails. The arcuate fossils are the cross-sections of clams.