Brazilian Agate Bookends

Prop Up Your Shakespeare in Dramatic Style. Agate is a variety of chalcedony known for its dramatic, multi-color banding and for its supposed abilities to discern truth and improve perception. Matching material to task, these sleek, one-of-a-kind Brazilian Agate Bookends form the perfect bracket for your literary gems.  Approx. 3-4.5"h. x 4.5-7"w. x 2-3"d.

Museum Provenance

Home to extraordinary collections as amazing and diverse as dinosaurs, ocean life, anthropology and botany, our National Museum of Natural History also curates The National Gem Collection (the world’s greatest collection of gems) and the Eternal Life in Ancient Egypt exhibit.

Every Smithsonian purchase will arrive with a museum provenance card explaining how it is adapted from or inspired by an object or objects in our collection.