SiS: 2. 2 " Blue & Black Petrified Pinecone - SPECTACULAR DETAIL
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:4558668 |
This fossil cone one is small but is about as close as they get to perfect - one of the neatest fossils you'll ever see with a magnificent black and blue agate diamond pattern formed by the agatized seed pods in the polished face of this fossil cone. This one is virtually flawless inside and out, and shows some of the external structure of the cone now in somewhat weathered stone. The face was cut and hand polis...hed in our shop to bring all of the color and fossil detail to life! This is a dark stone and will show the detail best with good light. It's a nice specimen cone that the new owner is going to show with pride and awe!! One of my best finds in Tucson last 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. 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 half cut from the larger end of an 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 2.2" across the polished face and is about 0.79" thick. It's a smaller but near flawless one, weighing in at 0.12 lbs. 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!
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