SiS: AMAZING Intricately Detailed Petrified Pinecone!

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This amazing stone slab is actually from the center of a petrified conifer cone! It's a larger sized slab and it's complete but it does have a pretty good fracture line (mostly visible in the back) that we had to stabilize. The saw actually caught it and left a little extra stone on the back as well. But the polished display side looks great! The flower petal like arrangement you see is actually the overlapping seed pods within the cone! If you've wanted a nice showy specimen for your own collection - here it is! This one is preserved in rich wood tones (most are more coffee colored) and the seed pods show up very clearly in the dark polished agate face! 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 read more

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