SiS: EXQUISITE FLAME Calamity Butte Petrified Wood Stand - Up




Item History & Price

Information:
Reference Number: Avaluer:4576925
Original Description:
This is a smaller but particularly beautiful example of one of my prettiest petrified wood varieties.  This wood comes from one of my favorite locations in Eastern Oregon.  It's a remarkably well preserved conifer with crystal clear growth rings!  It's preserved in a gem grade of agate that takes a marvelous polish to show off our unmatched lapidary skills.  This location is called Calamity Butte, and it is just outside of the small ...town of Burns, Oregon.  The wood is fossil sequoia and the tightly packed, wavy growth rings are typical of this species.  The polish we are able to achieve on the cut face of this stone is simply incredible!Just when you think you've seen it all, something this gorgeous comes along and just blows you away! I love this hobby - can you tell?! Seriously, this is a really beautiful and highly detailed variety of petrified wood that rivals the best of the McDermitt specimens I've loved for years. I saw this variety of wood for the first time about a year ago and I've been working like crazy ever since to find the source. I visited the location during our recent early summer digging expedition but found few pieces of significance. Fortunately, I ran into a local rockhound who was happy to sell me a few choice pieces he'd collected years ago! The wood grain is much bolder and much more visible in these standups than just about any other variety I've cut - and if you follow our petrified wood auctions you should appreciate just how incredible that is. Calamity Butte is in Eastern Oregon and is just another piece of transition desert/forest landscape barely worth naming. But at one point, it was a thriving forest which was buried in the devastating volcanic eruptions of the Cascades and other mountain ranges in the area. I'm not certain of the species, other than to say that it's a very clean, knot free conifer (once I polish a cross section I should be able to say for sure but right now the angled cut is too steep to say more than it's "probably" a fir or redwood). It's a pretty nice wedge shaped piece of petrified wood, with absolutely gorgeous gem quality agate in many rich colors preserving this ancient fossil. The cut and polished face reveals a richly colored array of gem quality agate that preserved the wood grain beautifully in every detail! The cell structure from the growth rings in this attractive fossil specimen are very well defined and flow with a sometimes "Z" pattern to them that make it look like it was painted. I don't have a lot, but what I do have is world class. If you don't have a specimen from this area, this would be a dandy to get you acquainted!!This wedge shaped display piece was cut at a steep sloping angle and then polished to show off all the gemmy detail inside. The base is cut flat so that you can present it nicely without a stand and show it off on a bookshelf or table. It took a beautiful polish, it really does look like a mirror! It's another one of those beautiful fossil treasures that some happy Sticks-in-Stones customer is going to flip over! This is a medium sized piece that stands about 3" tall and measures approx. 3 7/8" x 2 7/8" wide on the polished face.  Weight is 1.02 lbs. A nice, unique naturally wonderful stone collectible exclusively from Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary.

00131


    Similar items


  • Sis: Small And Exquisite Calamity Butte Petrified Wood Stand - Up

    Sis: Small And Exquisite Calamity Butte Petrified Wood Stand - Up

  • Sis: Exquisite Samller Herring Bone Calamity Butte Petrified Wood Specimen

    Sis: Exquisite Samller Herring Bone Calamity Butte Petrified Wood Specimen

  • Sis: Exquisite Color 12 " Madagascar Petrified Wood Round - Crystal,  Green & More

    Sis: Exquisite Color 12 " Madagascar Petrified Wood Round - Crystal, Green & More

  • Sis: Red Flame Hubbard Basin Petrified Wood Slab - Insanely Colorful

    Sis: Red Flame Hubbard Basin Petrified Wood Slab - Insanely Colorful

  • Sis: Exquisitely Preserved 12 " Madagascar Petrified Wood Round - Slab

    Sis: Exquisitely Preserved 12 " Madagascar Petrified Wood Round - Slab

  • Sis: Glorious 7 Lb.  Green & Red Hampton Butte Oregon Petrified Wood Stand - Up

    Sis: Glorious 7 Lb. Green & Red Hampton Butte Oregon Petrified Wood Stand - Up

  • Sis: Green Moss Agate Hampton Butte Petrified Wood Log Cast Slab

    Sis: Green Moss Agate Hampton Butte Petrified Wood Log Cast Slab

  • Sis: Small & 1.  85 " Hampton Butte Petrified Wood & Agate Slab

    Sis: Small & 1. 85 " Hampton Butte Petrified Wood & Agate Slab


    • You might also like


    • Sis: My Best Quality 15 " Madagascar Petrified Wood Slab - Simply Gorgeous Round

      Sis: My Best Quality 15 " Madagascar Petrified Wood Slab - Simply Gorgeous Round

    • Very Large,  Polished Utah Petrified Wood Round

      Very Large, Polished Utah Petrified Wood Round

    • Very Large,  Multi - Colored,  Polished Arizona Petrified Wood Round

      Very Large, Multi - Colored, Polished Arizona Petrified Wood Round

    • Very Large,  Polished,  Utah Petrified Wood Round; Light Green Crystal Center; Fun

      Very Large, Polished, Utah Petrified Wood Round; Light Green Crystal Center; Fun

    • Large,  Multi - Colored,  Polished Arizona Petrified Wood Round - End Cut

      Large, Multi - Colored, Polished Arizona Petrified Wood Round - End Cut

    • Sis: 2 - Tone Green & Black Dendrite African Petrified Wood Round - Ultra - Rare

      Sis: 2 - Tone Green & Black Dendrite African Petrified Wood Round - Ultra - Rare

    • Sis: Hampton Butte - 5 ",  Oregon Green Petrified Wood Round

      Sis: Hampton Butte - 5 ", Oregon Green Petrified Wood Round

    • Sis: Tropical Sea Green African Petrified Wood Round - Ultra - Rare

      Sis: Tropical Sea Green African Petrified Wood Round - Ultra - Rare

Avaluer          About Us          Privacy Policy          Contact Us          UP
© 2022, avaluer.net, Inc. or its affiliates