SiS: Intricately Detailed Petrified Conifer Cone Specimen
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:44326991 |
This amazing stone slab is actually from the center of a petrified conifer cone! It's a larger sized slab and it's virtually perfect. The flower petal like arrangement you see is actually the overlapping seed pods within the cone! If you've wanted a true museum piece for your own collection - here it is! This one is preserved in rich black coffee and wood tones, and the seed pods show up very clearly in the dark polished agate face! The... rind on the slab is naturally wind polished to show the texture and detail beautifully as well. Don't miss it! One of my best finds in Tucson this year was a source of good quality, highly agatized, petrified pinecones! I'd seen a few of these around in years past, but the prices were always out of reach for this rockhound. This year I found a fellow who had a selection of both whole and incomplete cones for a reasonable price. I wasn't all that interested at first, until I looked closely and saw how many of them were wind polished - a good sign that the stone is very hard and has a high agate content! I wetted a few and saw a gorgeous blue agate pattern in the face of some of the weathered ones. That was enough for me to jump in buy them and boy am I glad I did!! The first cone I cut revealed a gorgeous, starburst pattern of dark coffee and black colored plant structure with the spaces between the seed pods and the seed pods themselves filled with a gorgeous blue agate that reminds me of the Blue Forest petrified wood we've enjoyed for years. This particular cone produced yet another surprising and beautiful color variety. You can see all the detail of this prehistoric cone in a shape and pattern that is unmatched by anything I'd ever seen before. These lovely cones come from Argentina. The cones are "Araucaria elongata" or more commonly, giant monkey puzzle tree cones from Cerro Cuadrado, Patagonia, Argentina. They are from the Jurassic age. (Thanks paleodon!) When cut in cross section they are beautiful, well preserved and exceptional lapidary/fossil specimens. If you haven't purchased from us before you'll be in for another treat - while many commercial lapidaries will tell you how great their polishing skills are, we invite you to look at the hundreds of comments in our feedback file where many of the collectors here on eBay explain that it's the unique high quality specimens and spectacular, liquid perfect polish that has them coming back to Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary to grow their collections! This is a complete cone cross section slab is cut from the center of a larger than average sized cone and it is a virtually flawless example of what can come from this region. The weathered diamond pattern on the exterior of the cone reminds me of the way cycads grow. This cone measures about 3 1/8" across the polished face and is cut 0.39" thick. This exceptional cone is intricately preserved and shows the seed pods very clearly. A nice, unique naturally wonderful stone collectible exclusively from Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary - eBay's Original Rockshop!
