[Flashback Friday] 5.2 - Petoskey Stone Skulls

Agent, Azurafae, and myself, Tatman, are taking turns reflecting on 17 of our perWelcome to another addition of Flashback Friday.** This year the guest editors, Citizen sonal favorite skulls from the previous four years of postings. So please join us as we visit the archives and add our additional commentary on some of the original pieces.

Petoskey Stone Skulls





I saw these excellent Petoskey Stone carvings at a street fair in Manistee, Mi. Tom Thompson is the creator who works with all types of stone carvings. These were absolutely beautiful for their super clean look of being newly polished and still appearing as ancient and mysterious artifacts turned up in some jungle from a certain explorer. I still wish I had bought one of these so hopefully he'll be returning to manistee this summer.


**Flashback Friday was a weekly countdown of the fan selected top 52 skulls of Skull-A-Day 1.0. Each week during year 3.0 The Skullmaster posted the original skull along with some additional commentary in order from lowest to highest rated, with the #1 skull appearing in the last week of year 3.0, all 52 can be found here.

Petoskey Stone Skulls

On my last weekend living in Michigan my family made a trip to Manistee and visited the street craft fair in the downtown area. I made a most glorious discovery of these wonderful skulls carved by Tom Thompson. These are called petoskey stones and are recognizable by their unique patterns.





These were even more impressive in person. I want to thank Tom for allowing me to post his work here. If you are in Michigan and run across Tom and his stone carvings(he does more than just skulls) then prepare to be amazed. I couldn't pass up on buying one of his lower peninsula of Michigan stones for a reminder of my great years spent living here.

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