This is by far one of the nicest mid-sized fossil cone slabs we've cut in many months - it's really quite close to perfect! It is a very nicely shaped, richly colored and well preserved cone slab that is virtually flawless and perfect! We liked this one so much we polished it on both sides! The interior details preserved in beautiful blue and black agate are as good as these cones get! Even the structure on the rind is visible on this exquisite slab! Another fine collectible slab from eBay's Original Rockshop! You won't see many slabs like this with such rich color and seed pods preserved in such flawless agatized detail!! This is a above average sized specimen that is 100% complete. Polished with a mirror finish, it's a real treasure prepared in our shop to standards unmatched anywhere else in the industry to produce something you'll be proud to show in your own collection.
One of my best finds in Tucson many 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 feedback file where many of the collectors here on eBay 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 cross section slab cut from the center of an average sized cone. This round measures about 2 1/2" x 1 1/2" across and is cut about 0.29" thick. This slab is a nearly perfect window inside an ancient fossil treasure that shows the seed pods clearly.
A nice, unique naturally wonderful stone collectible exclusively from Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary.