SiS: BUGGY African WOODWORTHIA - INCREDIBLE Petrified Wood Round
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:4385503 |
This is one of the most dramatic of the Zimbabwe Woodworthia specimens I've had the pleasure of offering this year! This heel cut is loaded with tons of ancient insect borings that form arcs throughout the mirror polished face. They are even visible in the rind of the back of the log! Some of them are filled with a pale green agate and all are filled with agate and petrified frass (debris) that the bugs left behind! The grow...th structure is easily visible along with the insect borings in this high contrast specimen. Spike knots and growth rings make it easy to identify this fossil specimen as Woodworthia. And the color represents some of the prettiest you'll find in pieces from this forest. Combine all this with the kind of polish only our shop can offer time and again on our petrified wood for truly world class specimens and you have a real collector piece! One of my all time favorites in a wonderful collector size specimen! This round is from a smaller log that still has the stellar rays emanating through the entire round from the spike knots this wood is identified from. In the last couple of years I've started seeing some really fascinating petrified wood coming into the US at the big import shows from Zimbabwe, Africa! The wood is typically green, brown and black and exceptionally well preserved on the exterior. The interior reminds me of a lot of the Utah wood in detail (i.e. it's hit and miss) but the best pieces show beautiful spike knots leading up to the spine bases that coat the exterior logs. You'd recognize these specimens anywhere as the logs are consistently the same colors inside and out, and the exterior is coated with an unmistakable pattern of spine scars. The wood grain itself varies in quality, but the best of these pieces show spike knots in cross section (they look like rays coming from the center of the log) and a good cut will show several of them. This wood is quite unique and really a much more interesting fossil than most of the woodworthia we get here in the US. The green color is something you have to see in person to understand - it's not really comparable to any other petrified wood and it's difficult to get a representative photograph that really does the color justice. The wood has a reasonably high silica content so we're able to coax a nice polish out of the specimen. This round is cut from the end of a very solid log. It's really a nice piece, but what else would you expect from a business named "Sticks-in-Stones"?! We've applied all of our considerable lapidary skills to bring out a mirror finish and produce a specimen worthy of display in your own collection. You can also make out some of the spine scars on the edge of the slice. This piece measures about 4 1/4" x 3 5/8" across the polished face and is cut to a maximum of about 1 1/4" thick. Weight is 0.92 lbs. Stands sold separately. Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary is happily providing UPS shipping to greatly reduce shipping charges on large rock orders. We will combine all of your purchases from our shop to bring you the greatest possible value in fine Lapidary & stone collectibles!
