This latest slab represents my favorite cut from the whorl of this amazing ancient spruce tree! Very few pieces from a given part of my collection can truly be called “the best”, but this log has definitely produced several slabs that easily earn that label! Here’s a truly amazing museum grade round from my favorite petrified wood deposit at a price you simply aren’t going to see again once these gorgeous specimens are gone. This is one of the most unique and beautiful pieces I’ve ever seen from Hubbard Basin. The color in the outer zone ranges through several shades of rich blue while the interior is lighter with both gold and white wood tones. It all combines to faithfully preserve a truly perfect spruce tree including well defined growth rings! The colorful agate in this beautiful piece needs to be seen in person to be truly appreciated! It is truly a finely detailed wood cross section painted by nature into a frozen window capturing time forever! Polished to a mirror finish as only our shop delivers on every piece we sell, you’re guaranteed to be thrilled with this amazing display specimen of ancient spruce! Here’s an absolutely gorgeous, flawless petrified wood round from one of the most prized petrified wood deposits ever discovered! If you aren’t familiar with the Hubbard Basin petrified wood from Nevada, you should be! It’s a very colorful variety, though true collectible pieces from this location are not plentiful. This piece has all of the best colors that these coveted specimens are famous for. The characteristic blue, white, pink, black and gold along with a lot of other colors appear to have been painted into the stone with the single intention of drawing a gasp from the fossil wood collector on sight! There are crystal filled cavities everywhere and a single massive knot just above the perfectly centered heart. They don’t get much prettier or any more unique than this beauty! Besides being beautifully colored, it’s also perfectly preserved. The flowing wood grain from this round starts at the heart of the tree and forms massive arcs through every region of this highly colorful wood. The cells are uncommonly well preserved for Hubbard Basin wood with virtually every colorful region showing excellent wood grain preservation right down to the ray cells within the growth rings! The detail in the lighter regions is washed out in the photo, but it’s easily visible in the actual stone. Hubbard Basin petrified wood is highly prized among fossil and gemstone collectors because of it’s uniquely beautiful blue color and gold, red, etc. It’s also some of the best agatized wood to be found and is sometimes even translucent (this round is in several regions). Wood is relatively scarce from this region and true collector pieces are very seldom encountered. The qualities that make a piece valuable are color, completeness, shape and fracture free – this piece has them all and several dozen open crystal cavities to boot! This is a relatively small cross section of petrified wood for this location, but it is still a very nicely sized display piece. Most of the logs in this deposit were larger spruce and other conifers. This round is complete, and nicely sized although most of these specimens were from softer wood species and like their cousins in Cherry Creek (Nevada’s other famous deposit) they tended to get “squashed” in the ground forming oblong rounds when cut. This one is a conifer of some variety (probably spruce). We work hard to find the best specimens from the most prized locations and then work with our magic to create a world class specimen for your collection. Our shop is unmatched in both the techniques and attention to detail to produce the finest petrified wood specimens available anywhere. Our work stands above that of the commercial vendors simply because we take the time to make each piece something we’d keep in our own collections which means you’ll be treated to a lustrous polish that still looks wet to the touch when you see this true collector gem! The piece is quite solid and meant to be handled. A quick squirt of windex will remove fingerprints from the glassy polished surface. This stone has been professionally cut and polished on a special lap that produces a flat face and a mirror perfect shine. The polish really is liquid perfect – a difference in the quality products Sticks-in-Stones has built its reputation on that others can only aspire to! It measures about 9″ x 8 1/4″ wide on the polished face. It’s cut about 0.36 thick. Weight is about 1.62 lbs. The item “SiS MUSEUM GRADE Hubbard Basin Petrified Wood Round TRULY PERFECT SPECIMEN” is in sale since Wednesday, May 22, 2019. 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.