SiS: INCREDIBLE 6 Lb. Eden Valley, Wyoming, Petrified Wood LOG - Polish
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:44327738 | Country/Region of Manufacture: United States |
One of the single largest and most "wood like" Eden Valley logs we've recently auctioned! It's hard to decide whether the exterior or the interior is the prettiest and most interesting - you're just going to have to decide for yourself. I really don't think I've seen an exterior quite like this from this amazing forest! Rich wood grain and agate in the mirror polished face reveal both growth rings and insect borings in the face. There i...s weathered texture below fossilized algae on the outside that faithfully preserved every contour of the original log also! There are some interesting mineral inclusions in the polished face including golden calcite. The center of the log appears to have been hollow at one point but was later filled with hard mineralized sediments. The face is highly polished gemstone that still looks very much like wood even though it's a 50+ million year old fossil stone!!Here's a really nicely preserved, large sized petrified log from the Eden Valley petrified wood deposits in Central Wyoming. This area has several productive fossil wood beds, the most famous of which is The Blue Forest. This piece has the black and tan tinted wood grain that characterizes parts of the Blue Forest deposit (also in Eden Valley) but lacks the blue botryoidal agate cast that typifies it's sister deposit. The exterior cast is also much closer to a perfect cast than you'll usually find in the other beds with very finely preserved wood grain features on the outside of the log. The wood itself is fabulously preserved right down to the microscopic level and it has lots of coffee & tan colors throughout. One of the best preserved logs we've ever seen from this area. This wood comes from a sagebrush desert in central Wyoming. The digging is hot and dusty, but every once in a while you stumble on a real treasure and this little log is one of them! The rich, coffee colors the wood is preserved in are characteristic of these specimens, as are the infusions of agate that filled the cracks and coated the limb! This is a very "woody" log that has been cut and polished to show off all the gemmy detail inside. It really took a pretty awesome polish, even by our high standards. While many imitators make promises, only the Sticks-in-Stones rockshop consistently delivers a perfect polish on petrified wood, agates and jaspers time on every piece we offer to our fellow collectors. Measures about 7 1/2" x 5" wide across the mirror polished face. It is about 2 3/4" thick/long. It weighs right at 5.84 lbs.
A nice, unique naturally wonderful stone collectible exclusively from Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary - eBay's Original Rockshop!
A nice, unique naturally wonderful stone collectible exclusively from Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary - eBay's Original Rockshop!
