SiS: 2. 3 Inch Intricately Detailed Petrified Pine Cone - Polished
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:15577767 |
This amazing darker colored fossil cone is very close to flawless! It's smaller than many but also one of the most dramatic complete cone sections we've cut this year! The high contrast colors in this specimen are unique among the many we've cut, and they reveal a perfectly formed core framed in ancient seed pods. The exterior is delicately articulated in solid agate with the texture of the folded seed pods. If you...'ve wanted a truly unique piece for your own collection - here it is! This one is preserved in rich wood tones (most are more coffee colored) and the external texture is fairly detailed as well! Don't miss it! One of my best finds in Tucson this 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. This particular cone produced yet another surprising and beautiful color variety. 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 cross section slab is cut from the center of a larger than 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 2.30" across the polished face and is a maximum of about 0.6" thick. Weight is 0.10 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!
