SiS: EXQUISITELY BLUE 7 " Hubbard Basin Petrified Wood Round - Log Heel
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This is a very poor picture of a particularly beautiful petrified wood specimen. The color is a soft sky blue that is difficult to capture.This is a particularly pretty and good sized slab of one of the most colorful petrified wood specimens found anywhere. It comes from Hubbard Basin Nevada and it is actually an ancient tree trunk that has been preserved in some some richly colored blue agate with rusty brown, gold, black and white accents. This is ext...remely highly agatized wood and it takes an amazing polish which we have of course have delivered for you on this choice specimen. Wait until you see the rich color and amazing ancient wood grain in that mirror polished gemstone face! It's the heel from the log and while the sides are still rough and naturally articulated, the back has been ground smooth but not polished. An amazing fossil gem in 100% natural color! Good luck! Here's an absolutely gorgeous, hard to come by petrified wood round from one of the most prized petrified wood deposits ever discovered! If you aren't familiar with the Hubbard Basin petrified wood from Nevada, you should be! It's a very colorful variety, though not plentiful so the pieces aren't often found (or seen). This piece has all of the best colors that these coveted specimens are famous for. The characteristic blue, white and gold along with a lot of other colors appear to have been painted into the stone with the single intention of drawing a gasp from the fossil wood collector on sight! Besides being beautifully colored, it's also perfectly preserved. The flowing wood grain from this complete round starts at the heart and fans out through every part of this highly colorful wood. Hubbard Basin petrified wood is highly prized among fossil and gemstone collectors because of it's uniquely beautiful blue color and gold, red, etc. inclusions. It's also some of the best agatized wood to be found and is sometimes even translucent. This piece appears to be from a conifer and the cell structure is visible in several areas. Most (but not all) of the specimens found in this lost forest are petrified spruce. This is a larger log cross section of petrified wood. This round is complete, and nicely sized although most of these specimens were from softer wood species and like their cousins in Cherry Creek (Nevada's other famous deposit) they tended to get "squashed" in the ground typically forming distorted rounds when cut. If you haven't seen our petrified wood specimens before then you've been missing one of the best treasures found on eBay! We work hard to find the best specimens from the most prized locations and then work with our magic to create a world class specimen for your collection. The piece is quite solid and meant to be handled. A quick squirt of windex will remove fingerprints from the glassy, mirror polished surface. This stone has been professionally polished on a special lap that produces a flat face and a mirror perfect shine. We obtained this round at a local show a couple of years ago and reworked the commercial finish to produce a world class specimen featuring the Sticks-in-Stones polish worthy of a place in your own collection. The polish really is liquid perfect - a difference in the quality products Sticks-in-Stones has built its reputation on! It measures about 6 7/8" x 4 5/8" wide on the polished face. It is a maximum of just under 1 1/2" thick but varies because it's the heel from the log. Weight is 1.86 lbs. Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary is happily providing UPS shipping to greatly reduce shipping charges on large rock orders. We will combine auction items or provide additional items from our shop to bring you the greatest possible value in fine Lapidary & stone collectibles!
