SiS: TRULY GORGEOUS 10 " Hubbard Basin Petrified Wood Round - LUSCIOUS SPECIMEN
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:44328367 | Country/Region of Manufacture: United States |
OK Folks - this is one you've been waiting for! We don't often see such a large, diversely colored round from this fabulous location and auctioning off one this nice isn't something we can afford to do very often. That incredible multi-color wood grain is just amazing - it appears to show the heart of the log in the lower left corner and countless growth rings framing it! There is a really pretty spike knot on the right side that looks like a brush ...stroke! This is the heel section (rough and natural end of the log) with a mirror perfect polish that makes our imitators envious! It's hard to describe, but this one is almost porcelain or glass like in it's structure - incredibly solid and beautifully polished. It's going to make a gorgeous addition to some lucky new owner's collection - here's hoping it's yours! Here's an absolutely gorgeous, flawless petrified wood round from one of the most prized petrified wood deposits ever discovered! If you aren't familiar with the Hubbard Basin petrified wood from Nevada, you should be! It's a very colorful variety, though true collectible pieces from this location are not plentiful. This piece has all of the best colors that these coveted specimens are famous for. The characteristic blue, white, black and gold along with a lot of other colors appear to have been painted into the stone with the single intention of drawing a gasp from the fossil wood collector on sight! Besides being beautifully colored, it's also perfectly preserved. The flowing wood grain from this reasonably complete round starts at the heart and forms massive arcs through every region of this highly colorful wood. The cells are uncommonly well preserved for Hubbard Basin wood with virtually every colorful region showing excellent wood grain preservation right down to the ray cells within the growth rings! The detail in the lighter regions is washed out in the photo, but it's easily visible in the actual stone. Hubbard Basin petrified wood is highly prized among fossil and gemstone collectors because of it's uniquely beautiful blue color and gold, red, etc. inclusions. It's also some of the best agatized wood to be found and is sometimes even translucent. Wood is relatively scarce from this region and true collector pieces are very seldom encountered. The qualities that make a piece valuable are color, completeness, shape and fracture free - this piece has them all and several dozen open crystal cavities to boot! This is an extra large log cross section of petrified wood cut from the end of the log (rough and natural on back). Most of these specimens were from softer wood species and like their cousins in Cherry Creek (Nevada's other famous deposit) they tended to get "squashed" and distorted in the ground forming oblong rounds when cut. This one is a conifer of some variety (most in this forest were spruce). If you haven't seen our petrified wood specimens before then you've been missing one of the best treasures found on eBay! We work hard to find the best specimens from the most prized locations and then work with our magic to create a world class specimen for your collection. Our shop is unmatched in both the techniques and attention to detail to produce the finest petrified wood specimens available anywhere. Our work stands above that of the commercial vendors simply because we take the time to make each piece something we'd keep in our own collections which means you'll be treated to a lustrous polish that still looks wet to the touch when you see this true collector gem! The piece is quite solid and meant to be handled. A quick squirt of Windex will remove fingerprints from the glassy polished surface. 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 that others can only aspire to! It measures about 9 5/8" wide and 7 1/4" tall on the mirror polished face. It's reasonably flat on the back for a heel cut - it averages maybe 1" thick and is a maximum of about 1.7" thick. Weight is 6.02 lbs. This is a large and absolutely glorious display piece that deserves to come live with a collector who can appreciate it's unique beauty! Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary is happily providing UPS & USPS shipping to greatly reduce shipping charges on large rock orders. We will combine auction items or provide additional items from our shop to bring you the greatest possible value in fine Lapidary & stone collectibles!
