From MartinC "She sells seashells on the seashore" Sarah's Sorceress (27pts)

Mary Anning lived in Lyme Regis at the start of the 19th Century. Her family was extremely poor so Mary made a lving collecting and selling the huge numbers of fossils to be found in Lyme Regis sea cliffs and beaches. 

She became very famous and although always poor people travelled to buy her seashells, to the point that the tongue twister in the title was written to celebrate her.

She has recently been rediscovered and lauded, to be honest she was famous in her day and was awarded a pension by her clients, but there are no famous geologists (name one without refering to Google I dare you ) so her fame slipped. There is a Hollywood film coming out about her called Ammonite but I'm not optimistic.

I am a fan and I found this figure from Antediluvian Minitatures of her and her dog Tray so I just had to paint them up.

The figure is modelled on the famous picture of her, see link above

The best thing is that she is mounted on a piece of mudstone full of ammonite and brachiopod fossils that I collected from Lyme Regis a few years ago.

So 5 points for Mary and a couple for Tray and 20 points for the to teleport to Knights Solar.

This is going to go on my desk at work.