This is some of the most interesting and most beautiful petrified wood I’ve come across in years! You simply aren’t going to believe how gorgeous these are until you’re looking at them in person – it’s just impossible to capture the depth of shine in that polished gem face with a camera. This is one of our most “wood like” and impressive sets of Petrified Wood bookends and it is easily one of the most stunning natural displays I’ve seen in a long time. If you could see the natural treasures I’m surrounded with in the shop every day you’d know what a marvelous thing that is! This particular set is a very high grade of very gemmy agate that was once a tree and it really took a magnificent polish. The wood itself is a petrified pine tree and the cell structure is still perfectly preserved in intricate detail through the entire polished face, even to the naked eye! The well preserved growth rings with their large resin canals are still easily visible now, millions of years later, suggesting that this is an ancient pine tree, and the transformation to a gemstone preserving these fine details borders on miraculous. It doesn’t get any better folks! Easily one of the finest sets of petrified wood bookends you’re likely to see this year! This gorgeous set of bookends is cut from one of my favorite varieties of petrified wood. This fossilized hardwood came from the famed Sweet Home, Oregon, petrified forest. This tree was pine before it was petrified. It’s a petrified conifer with visible resin canals and exceptional growth ring preservation in a rich gold and chocolate brown agate with a sandy cream colored rind and lots of other accent colors. This particular dig has some of the best petrified wood in the entire state and is often some of the best agatized wood. It looks porous between some of the growth rings, yet the wood is so well agatized overall that it takes a gorgeous, lustrous polish that only the best grades of petrified wood can achieve. It’s a unique combination of “ancient” and “gemmy” unlike any other petrified wood we’ve cut! We select only the showiest pieces of petrified wood and other gemstones to cut into bookends. 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. Of course, there are plenty of differences in the two halves, but the photo should let you appreciate how well we do this. The bookends sit perfectly upright and are completely square to one another. They are felted on both the sides and bottom to protect the books and the shelf. We make sure they are 100% functional on top of being beautiful! Of course, these agates proudly show the perfect polish that the Sticks-in-Stones rockshop has dedicated itself to. The finish looks poured on – but there’s nothing there except rock!! This is the only set of bookends we have cut from this location so don’t miss this fabulous natural treasure! This is a fairly large set. Each half measures about 8 1/4″ tall & 7″ wide at the widest spot on the polished face. They’re cut about 1.9 thick. Weight for this set is 15.6 lbs. Which makes these bookends suitable for just about any sized book you have including the typical sized text book or cook books. What better way to accentuate a bookshelf or your mantle than with this unbelievable natural work of art! The item “SiS BIG & BREATH TAKING Petrified Wood Bookend Set 16 lb. GEMMY FOSSIL PINE” is in sale since Friday, October 10, 2014. This item is in the category “Collectibles\Rocks, Fossils & Minerals\Fossils\Vegetation\Petrified Wood”. The seller is “rockshop” and is located in Beaverton, Oregon. This item can be shipped worldwide.