SiS : MAGNIFIQUE rond en bois pétrifié 3" SASSAFRAS 3" petit et impeccable collections - McDermitt, OU

This is a really warm, wood toned gemstone cut from the end ofa truly beautiful and wonderfully preserved petrifiedhardwoodlimb from McDermitt, Oregon! This exquisite, extrafinepetrifiedwood roundis nearly a prefect shape and has some of the best detailed microstructure youll ever see! This piece is small but was so exquisitely preserved I had to finish it. It is one of the most agatized, lustrous pieces Ive done in ages and all packed into asmall palm sized package.The color you see will depend on the nature of the light you use to view thistranslucent agate preserved wood. It becomes warm and more reddish in strong light. Good McDermitt specimens are becoming very difficult to find outside of estate collections. This is the heel cut from the end of the limb, rough and natural on the back. The wood structure under magnification is asemi-ring porous hardwood similar to modern sassafras. A quality specimen from this famed, beautiful site is a must have in any petrified wood collection. Only Sticks-in-Stones can offer specimens so perfectly polished that they can reveal both their aesthetic beauty and their fossils secrets so flawlessly!

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. Its 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 all the way through the log. The rays and the cells in this excellent fossil are easily seen under modest magnification. The pit that this log came from has produced some of the finest and most famous petrified cherry specimens prized by collectors for decades. The specimens from this particular dig (airport site) are easily recognized by the richer than average color spectrum and the nicely contrasting rind (even by other McDermitt dig standards).

This excellent round comes from one of Oregons premier petrified wood deposits known to collectors the world over. If you dont have a specimen from this area, this would be a dandy to get you acquainted!! Its cut from the end of a nicely shaped limb that allows you to see the wood growth structure easily with your naked eye though magnification opens up the details that help identify the well preserved specimen. 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)! Its another one of those beautiful fossil treasures that some happy Sticks-in-Stones customer is going to flip over!

This virtually perfect round measuresabout3" in diameter and is cut a maximum of about 0.80" thick. Weight is0.24 lbs. Display stand shown is sold separately.

A nice, unique naturally wonderful stone collectible exclusively from Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary.