I’ve had the privilege of seeing some of the best Hubbard Basin petrified wood specimens that have ever come from this highly prized location, but this piece really deserves a place on the top shelf of even the finest collection from Hubbard or anywhere else! It’s a truly flawless, absolutely gorgeous and uncommonly colored, museum grade round from my favorite petrified wood deposit! I’ve been collecting Hubbard Basin wood for more than a decade and I’ve never seen a color pattern I like more than these unusual swirling blues and blacks! The blue, blue, violet, blue and black color defies accurate photography but the richness and beauty are guaranteed to impress when you see it in person. If you’ve ever seen what is sometimes described as a “chroma” agate, this wood exhibits the same opaque pastel effect! And with our mirror polish gently coaxed from the surface of this gemstone, you can count on seeing every shade and ever fossil artifact of this ancient spruce tree. Countless tiny crystal cavities and impeccably preserved wood grain amongst the wood rot voids make it an even more impressive specimen – you won’t find a better one for this price! In fact, you may never see a more beautiful specimen of petrified wood at any price! Here’s an absolutely gorgeous 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, red and black 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! Besides being beautifully colored, it’s also perfectly preserved. The flowing wood grain from this complete round starts at the heart 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. 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 nice to display sized cross section of petrified wood for this location. Most of the logs in this deposit were larger spruce and other conifers and few are complete rounds. 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 8 7/8″ x 6 1/4″ wide on the polished face. It’s cut about 0.33 thick. Weight is 1.06 lbs. The item “SiS UNIQUELY BEAUTIFUL 9 Hubbard Basin Petrified Wood Round TOP GRADE” is in sale since Saturday, December 14, 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.