SiS: AMAZING Petrified Wood Round - GORGEOUS 4" HARDWOOD - Vantage, Washington

Description

This is one of the most perfect smaller sized Washington State petrified hardwood rounds we've come across in many years.  This is not from the Yakima River Canyon, but actually comes from near the town of Vantage, Washington.  It's a beautiful specimen with great growth rings and finely detailed wood structure under magnification in pleasing, subtle, natural colors.  The growth rings are very tight, possibly indicating that this was actually a branch rather than a trunk, and the cell structure appears to be diffuse porous with dense pores something like the fruit trees produce but beyond that I'm just guessing.  It's very crisply defined under magnification and the glassy surface is characteristic of the gem grade specimens that come out of this part of the state.  This is a heel cut that we picked up from a petrified wood collectors estate that hadn't been finished yet.  The shiny parts of the back appear to be CA or another stabilizing agent used to make sure the very minor fractures present were solid.  The back is otherwise and and natural as it was found.  The polish in this gemmy specimen says gemstone and collector piece as much as it does fossil!!
This is a really gemmy little round cut from the center a nice, medium sized petrified log that came from our neighboring state, Washington. Washington has a few nice petrified wood deposits, the most well known of which is Saddle Mountain. The Saddle Mountain wood is sort of a cross between what you'll find on the McDonald Ranch and McDermitt here in Oregon.  But the more prized location is near the town of Vantage where many beautifully preserved fossil hardwood trunks have been unearthed.  Many of the specimens recovered there have a really high opal content like the McDonald Ranch wood does. The opal content makes it a bit more challenging to get a good polish on, but this piece really shined up beautifully. The rings are really well preserved in this one and I think it's diffuse porous hardwood but I can't say much beyond that. But it's a beautiful, full pattern cross section slab. It's particularly nice agate and the polish shows off the natural gemmy beauty very nicely!
Like all of the petrified wood we specialize in here at Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary, this piece has been cut and lapped to be perfectly flat, then sanded and polished to the highest quality finish you'll find anywhere. Our polish work is among the best to be found anywhere and we go out of our way to make sure every piece has the same mirror perfect shine we'd want if it were going to stay in our collection!
This is a perfect round cut from the end of a complete log (or large limb) section. It measures about 4" across the polished face and is a maximum of about 0.40" thick.  It weighs 0.20 lbs.
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A nice, unique naturally wonderful stone collectible exclusively from
Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary
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