SiS: GORGEOUS DARK BLUE AGATE 6, Lb. Hubbard Basin Petrified Wood Sculpture
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:44325490 |
We've been busy in the shop all winter and have had the welcome opportunity to finish some amazing pieces that we've been waiting to finish for months, or in some cases, years! We wanted to put a really nice piece up for auction to reward those of you who visit our auctions regularly and this gorgeous, rich, super dark blue Hubbard Basin stand-up is one of the treats we're sneaking in this week! This is a particularly unusual color of blue in one of the... darkest blue shades I've ever seen from Hubbard Basin. It literally looks inky! One of the prettiest combinations of blue agate I've seen in the Hubbard Basin specimens I've offered this year! This is cut from the end of a museum class petrified log with an amazing external weathered agate wood grain surface. You get dark, inky blue, orange, gold, white and black with awesome wood grain details in this gem grade agate! It's a beautiful, multi-hued stone, so the more light you get into this one, the richer the color gets!! I think the exterior of this piece is as fascinating as the gorgeous, deep blue agate polished face face is! This mantle or desk piece is really a remarkable natural treasure and amazing art work - one you'll be proud to show off! This is really an excellent, very high quality fossil specimen from Nevada's Hubbard Basin. The wood found there is some of the most colorful in the world, rivaling the popular Arizona specimens in color variety, but tending more toward blue & gold than red. They are superior to the Arizona specimens in wood grain preservation. This wood grain and color combination is unique in the petrified wood world and is what makes this location one of the most sought after among wood collectors. These pieces have a very high agate content so the specimens always take a fantastic polish that flashes like a mirror in the sunlight! This piece is high grade, even for Hubbard Basin - it has a really rich, dark blue agate with wispy golds & reds accented with spider webs of black! All of the color patterns accent the wood grain details that follow the growth rings of the original tree! There's even a few hints of other hues to really set the colors off! The agate is translucent enough that the colored mineral regions appear to form plumes that grow deep into this ancient fossil, disappearing down into the glassy surface. It's cut to stand erect and show the entire cross section of the log. It's a lot harder to do this and make it come out right but this one really shows off the wood in grand style! This stone has been professionally cut and polished on a special lap that produces a flat face and a mirror perfect shine. The polish really is liquid perfect - a difference in the quality products Sticks-in-Stones has built its reputation on! The base is cut flat and then the face is cut at a sloping angle to make for easy display. Our stand-ups are always cut from larger, heavier pieces of petrified wood that can safely be handled and not present any serious risk of breakage. This is a great, larger size, 3D display piece - would look great on a mantle or a desk. Measures about 5" tall and is about 10 1/4" wide across the mirror polished face. Weight is about 6.32 lbs. Another Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary quality stone collectible from eBay's Original Rockshop!
