National Audubon Society Nature Program Vintage Fossil Collection

This vintage fossil collection is presented in its original educational packaging, branded for the National Audubon Society and published by Nelson Doubleday, Inc. The set is housed in a red textured cardboard box with an interior white card display featuring twelve fossil specimens. Each specimen is mounted above a printed identification and descriptive paragraph. The specimens include a dark triangular shark's tooth, a rectangular piece of petrified wood showing grain, a mineralized dinosaur bone fragment, an oyster shell fragment identified as a devil's toe-nail, a cluster of worm tubes in matrix, a pitted coral fragment, a cylindrical crinoid stalk segment, a dome-shaped sea urchin, a small dark snail shell, a fan-shaped clam shell, a ribbed lampshell brachiopod, and a branched bryozoa colony fragment.The exterior cover features a gold foil adhesive label printed with black text reading NATIONAL AUDUBON SOCIETY, NATURE PROGRAM, and NELSON DOUBLEDAY, INC. The label includes illustrations of a bird on a branch and two small mammals resembling koalas in the corners. Each fossil is accompanied by printed text detailing its classification, such as Pelecypod, Annelida, Coelenterata, Echinoderma, Echinoid, Gastropod, and Brachiopoda.Height: 9 1/2 inches.