BREATHTAKING 12" Saddle Mountain PICTURE WOOD Fossil Conifer Petrified Wood Slab - Estate Collection!

The photo is poor but the stone is magnificent! I liked this one so much in fact that I polished both sides to the gorgeous signature polish our shop is famous for! This one is loaded with black dendrites and the gold and rust colors that are most prized in this amazing fossil forest! This is a truly unique and absolutely mind blowing petrified wood slab cut from an ancient fossil conifer from Washington State's Saddle Mountain. This kinky, contorted slab is likely from the stump area of a larger tree. Much of the wood found at Saddle Mtn. is formed in the violent aftermath of volcanic events that left a lot of distorted stumps entombed in ash to petrify into the artistic gemstones we find now. This is very old stock material that came from an estate that collected it over many years in the latter half of the 20th century. This slab has been cut across the grain to produce an unparalleled display of natural gem fossil art. The finished result is one of the most visually appeali