SiS: Small And EXQUISITE Calamity Butte Petrified Wood Stand - Up
Item History & Price
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At just 1/2 lb. this piece is quite small compared to most of our petrified wood sculptures, but the wood was so beautiful and so gemmy I finished it into this small sculpture knowing someone would truly appreciate the opportunity to see such gemmy fossil wood sitting by their keyboard as much as I have! This wood comes from one of my favorite locations in Eastern Oregon. It's a remarkably well preserved conifer with crystal clear growth rings! I...t'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 small sized piece that stands about 2 1/2" tall and measures approx. 3 1/4" x 2 1/8" wide on the polished face. Weight is about 1/2 lb. A nice, unique naturally wonderful stone collectible exclusively from Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary.
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