Featured Finds Thread

Would it be heavier or lighter than rock dumb question I know but I have asked many of those

 

It IS rock. Specifically quartz. Petrified wood was wood a long long long time ago but all it's woody stuff has been replaced by quartz over time, so it still looks like wood - to a certain degree - but it's shiny and hard like quartz. So it weighs the same as a chunk of quartz the same size would weigh.

 

And this is a specimen of petrified wood from Arizona being offered for sale on a site that deals in such things:



I'm looking at the shape & texture of the outer edge of the stone under the tree.

 

I'm not completely ruling this out. But geodes start out as bubbles and are pretty close to spherical in their rough way. Petrified wood does not always retain any evidence of the wood grain. Think this little tree was a bit rotted & hollow on the inside, so got filled in a way similar to the way a completely filled geode looks. I think the edges have the right look for bark.

 

And another thing. If you took a slice like this out of the middle of a geode, what would you then be left with, what could you use if for, what would it be worth? Wasteful way to use one. While petrified wood was made for slicing.

 

Geodes and more specifically thunder eggs are sliced, slabbed and diced up all the time - there's hundreds of slices / slabs of them for sale on ebay or in rock/gift shops. I've seen lots of thunderegg slices with this type of exterior too - and they're rarely near perfectly round. Not ruling out petrified wood either - just going by my own experience with the stuff I've seen I think this looks more like a thunder egg.

 

Agate Nodule/geode with the center filled with "white" and not crystallized like hollow geodes.

The Oregon thunder eggs I have are round .

 

Yeah, I'll reverse myself on that bit. I do see geode slices used in jewelry & decorative items, although usually in thinner slices. Still think the jagged outer contour looks more like petrified wood, but too sleepy to keep my eyes open. Good night all.

 

That looks like Lady Gaga's lips! Goodnight B!

 

Here' the back

 

I would call it a agate nodule since there's visible banding.

 

Wow, that is beautiful!

 

Today all I'll probably find is work - I'm making the family Stollen and headed to a Channukah party tonight. Mix, knead, mix, knead. Wait... It's a family favorite but it takes all day.

 

They don't sell like they used to

so I find two today

 

They turned up as geode inspired lips, so seemed perfect.

 

Hi all,
Picked this 8" amberina vase up at my local thrift this morning $4.00
It's Blenko Wayne Husted 1959 I believe.
Mikey

 

Beautiful!

 

Are these for bonbons or nuts or?
Towle sterling about 4” tall and 5” diameter.

 

Hi,
Wonderful bonbons. The nuts usually do not have piercings. JMHO
greg

 

I beg to differ.
Just look around....