SiS: MIRROR POLISHED Washington State Petrified Wood Round - CYPRESS
Item History & Price
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This is a really nicely preserved, slightly taper cut slab from a petrified cypress trunk that was excavated on Saddle Mountain in Washington State. It's one of the more visually attractive specimens I've seen from the site with really nice growth structure in a darker than average hue for this site. The structure is preserved just as well under magnification and the high agate content in this piece means it took a fabulous polish. Good luck! This is a really gem...my, highly polished slab cut from the center of a nice sized petrified log that came from our neighboring state, Washington. Washington has a few nice petrified wood deposits, my favorite of which is Saddle Mountain. The Saddle Mountain wood is sort of a cross between what you'll find on the McDonald Ranch and McDermitt here in Oregon. The wood grain is typically very well preserved in a combination of yellow, coffee, amber and cream colors, like the McDermitt wood, but many of the specimens recovered there have a really high opal content like the McDonald Ranch wood does. The opal content makes it a bit more challenging to get a good polish on, but this piece really shined up beautifully. The rings are really well preserved in this one and I think it's a fir tree given the absence of either resin canals or hardwood porous cells. With a hand lens you can make out the porous looking cell structure pretty easily, but it's hard for me to discern fir from cedar or bald cypress and this location has produced all three. It's particularly nice agate and the polish shows off the natural gemmy beauty very nicely! Like all of the petrified wood we specialize in here at Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary, this piece has been cut and lapped to be perfectly flat, then sanded and polished to the highest quality finish you'll find anywhere. Our polish work is among the best to be found anywhere and we go out of our way to make sure every piece has the same mirror perfect shine we'd want if it were going to stay in our collection! This is a slab taken from the center of a well preserved log. It measures about 5 3/4" across the polished face and is cut at a slight taper that goes from about 0.67" to 0.34" thick. Weight is 0.86 lbs. Display stands sold separately. A nice, unique naturally wonderful stone collectible exclusively from Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary.
