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Madre Cream

Place Collected:Gantts Quarry, Sylacauga, Talladega County, Alabama, USA
Object number: BOS4073
DescriptionThis variety of marble was quarried at Gantt Quarry in Sylacauga, Alabama. It's been used for example, as "faux stalactites" in the Ave Maria Grotto in Cullman Alabama, a Benedictine monastary and in the lobby of the historic Memphis Tennessee, Peabody Hotel. Specimen from Tompkins-Kiel Marble Co. 505 Fifth Avenue, New York City
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