SiS: UNKNOWN HARDWOOD 8 " Petrified Wood Round, McDermitt OR - POLISH
Item History & Price
| Reference Number: Avaluer:4564944 |
This is a slab that came already cut from an estate that I recently had the chance to purchase stone from. This is a mostly complete cross section of a highly opalized McDermitt, Oregon, petrified wood log. The structure appears to be semi-ring porous but it isn't anything I recognize. It has fine rays visible everywhere but the pore structure looks different depending which area of the face you examine. It was a slow growing, kinky t...runk. The cut is somewhat tapered but the wood took a really remarkable polish and is easy to appreciate for that detail alone. The face is polished to a mirror finish while the back is cut smooth.This is a really beautiful specimen of the petrified wood found in a desolate sagebrush desert that spans over 100 square miles on the Oregon/Nevada border. It's a slice from a perfectly preserved hardwood, with absolutely gorgeous gem quality agate in warm, natural wood tones preserving this ancient fossil. The exterior is still ash white - colored by the ancient volcanic blast that buried this prehistoric forest. The inside, however, is 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 amazingly well preserved, especially in the lighter colored regions. The rays and the cells appear to be a semi-ring porous hardwood but I can't narrow it down much beyond that. It would actually be an excellent specimen for the petrified wood identification buff. It's very fine grained, with very small cells and rays. Perhaps a fruit tree (doesn't really look like the cherry sometimes found in the area) or perhaps willow or buckeye even = I just can't say for certain. The pit that this log came from has produced a variety of exotic, high quality specimens and this one will be a great mystery for a collector to unravel. The specimens from this particular dig are easily recognized by the darker and glassier than average color spectrum and agate, with the nicely contrasting very white rind (even by other McDermitt dig standards). This excellent round comes from one of Oregon's premier petrified wood deposits known to collectors the world over. If you don't have a specimen from this area, this would be a dandy to get you acquainted!! It's cut from the center of a nicely shaped log that allows you to see the rays and other cell features with very easily with a 10x loup (the rings are visible to the naked eye). This specimen has been carefully polished to show off all the gemmy detail inside. It took a beautiful polish and has just a few hints of red in some of the cells (probably from the nearby cinnabar deposits)! It's another one of those beautiful fossil treasures that some happy Sticks-in-Stones customer is going to flip over! This round measures a bit over 8" in diameter and is cut at a slight taper that goes from about 0.61" to 0.97" thick. Weight is 2.7 lbs. A nice, unique naturally wonderful stone collectible exclusively from Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary.
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