Nowy Kościół Thundereggs

Poland’s most famous thunderegg, Nowy Kosciol – or Nowy Kościół to spell it properly (and no I don’t really know how to pronounce it!) – was always one of the harder european thundereggs to collect.  Indeed, it was a location I more or less gave up on.  A few scraps passed through my hands – usually sold again pretty quickly.  This page on the Eibonvale gallery was frankly miserable to begin with.  It was a location I just couldn’t be bothered with – like the German St Egedien stones, all too often it seemed to just consist of mis-shaped, broken or just plain boring scraps of agate in a dull matrix.  It was a thunderegg – but that was just about all that could be said of it.

Yes – just as the St Egedien stones eventually proved me wrong with beautiful specimens like this old favourite of mine, it appears that the glory days of Nowy Kościół far outshine what is usually available on the collectors market today – something I really should have guessed.  Stones of a quality illustrated here are not often seen – indeed, when I first saw them, I was amazed.  I just had not realised that the location could produce anything as fine as this.  And of course, these are old stock stones – originating in old collections that fortunately came on the market again.  So I am delighted to present here a gallery of Nowy Kościół thundereggs that finally give a hint of what the site is capable of.