SiS: AMAZING FOSSIL Blue & Black Petrified Pinecone


SiS: AMAZING FOSSIL Blue & Black Petrified Pinecone

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SiS: AMAZING FOSSIL Blue & Black Petrified Pinecone:
$202.50


Thoughrelatively small, this is one of the most interesting and dramatically beautiful cones we\'ve put up for sale this year!This isa nice end cut from a fossilized cone that produced sometruly museum gradespecimens! The weathered outside is almost as interesting as the cut and polished face. Great agate content andseed pod definitionin this piece means our relentless commitment to flawless finishes has combined with another beautiful stone to produce atrue collector piece!! The blue color is the most prized in many circles and the detail in the mirror polished face of thisone is just incredible. This one isan incomplete and somewhat distorted cross section which is part of why it\'s so beautiful!

One of my best finds in Tucson several years ago 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 cone I cut revealed a gorgeous, starburst pattern of dark coffee and black colored plant structure with the spaces between the seed pods and the seed pods themselves filled with a gorgeous blue agate that reminds me of the Blue Forest petrified wood we\'ve enjoyed for years. You can see all the detail of this prehistoric cone in a shape and pattern that is unmatched by anything I\'d ever seen before.

These lovely cones come from Argentina. The cones are \"Araucaria elongata\" or more commonly, giant monkey puzzle tree cones from Cerro Cuadrado, Patagonia, Argentina. They are from the Jurassic age. (Thanks paleodon!) When cut in cross section they are beautiful, well preserved and exceptional lapidary/fossil specimens. If you haven\'t purchased from us before you\'ll be in for another treat - while many commercial lapidaries will tell you how great their polishing skills are, we invite you to look at the hundreds of comments in our response file where many of the collectors here on explain that it\'s the unique high quality specimens and spectacular, liquid perfect polish that has them coming back to Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary to grow their collections!

This is a complete conecross sectioncut from the end of a smaller than average sized cone (back end is broken away and weathered).The weathered diamond pattern on the exterior of the cone reminds me of the way cycads grow. This exceptional cone is intricately preserved and shows the seed pods very clearly.

Thisnicecone measures about 2 1/2\" across the polished face and is roughly 3/4\" thick (varies as it\'s naturally weathered on back). Weight is 0.14 lbs.

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

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SiS: AMAZING FOSSIL Blue & Black Petrified Pinecone:
$202.50

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