![]() These pieces are carefully cut in our shop so that you end up with a perfectly matched pair, one agate piece is the mirror image of the other. It's incredibly well agatized, crafted like only Sticks-in-Stones Lapidary can, and will make a fantastic natural treasure to add to the high bidder's home or office!We select only the showiest pieces of petrified wood to cut into bookends. Most of what is found in this rich deposit is Araucaria but I can't tell enough about this wood to say that's what it really is. The agatized wood is a really rich combination of colors in natural, high contrast tones that show well in the wet looking polished face. ![]() This one still has that famous red desert Arizona color accented with blacks and whites. This particular wood comes from a separate deposit from the famed Rainbow wood but is every bit as colorful, just centered in different tones. The fossil wood used in this set comes from Arizona. Petrified wood from this area is highly prized for the intense color of this gem grade fossil which takes a beautiful polish to reveal all of the color contained inside! They make dramatic bookends that are guaranteed to be 100% unique and natural treasures!This is a truly wonderful, gem grade set of bookends cut from petrified wood. The species is Araucaria, an ancient conifer that dominated the Late Triassic landscape and is an ancestor to modern redwoods. This wood is mined on a large ranch near Holbrook, Arizona. Reactive Palm Mcmullen County, Texas, Dome Polished Limb.This is a very brightly colored set of petrified wood bookends from Arizona! The striped pattern in this fossil wood is quite unusual for this forest, and our approach to cutting these stones as "book matched" mates really works with the pattern of the stone to create a dramatic and beautiful display of natural art! We don't often work with this wood because it's so far from our home state, but I picked up a really colorful chunk in an estate sale a few years ago and just got around to cutting it recently.
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