free4rms
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Post by free4rms on Jul 22, 2007 17:17:50 GMT -5
Quite awhile back I won an auction on eBay and as soon as I opened the package, I was mighty glad I won! This agate was described as "pseudomorph after palm wood" and I think this description is right on target. This piece was so unusual and the colors were so killer, I couldn't wait to polish a couple of freeforms. I haven't posted any photos in awhile, so here are two cuties from this palm wood. I photographed these without any glare from the lights so you can see the detail better, but they both have a super high gloss polish on them. I hope you enjoy them!  Vance |
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Post by beefjello on Jul 22, 2007 17:38:37 GMT -5
Wow.. those are just fantastic! That's some beautiful material.
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jjckitti
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Post by jjckitti on Jul 22, 2007 17:41:40 GMT -5
WOW! those are really super!
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Post by Lady B on Jul 22, 2007 20:28:38 GMT -5
STUNNING! Absolutely Stunning! What a great eBay find. (If only the seller could see them now!)
Thank you for sharing such beauty.
Lady B
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agatemaggot
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Post by agatemaggot on Jul 22, 2007 22:09:40 GMT -5
Those are some serious looking cabs. True eye candy.
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luv2hound
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I try & I try, but dang it! Those rocks just keep ending up in my pockets
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Post by luv2hound on Jul 22, 2007 22:22:49 GMT -5
Beautiful, just beautiful. The patterns are amazing. Looks like someone painstakingly painted the little dots.
~~Mitzi~~
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Post by parfive on Jul 22, 2007 23:25:58 GMT -5
They sure are pseudomorphs, Vance . . . . . eye poppin' after outrageous!
Rich
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Post by joe on Jul 23, 2007 0:26:17 GMT -5
Strawberry cabs! How cool!!
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rollingstone
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Post by rollingstone on Jul 23, 2007 0:45:50 GMT -5
Wow, those are truly amazing. So stunning, what a find!
-Don
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adrian65
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Post by adrian65 on Jul 23, 2007 3:16:53 GMT -5
Astonishing! The one in the left reminds me a horn coral.
Adrian
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Post by Tonyterner on Jul 23, 2007 13:36:44 GMT -5
Like nothing I've ever seen before. Nice find!
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 23, 2007 21:55:40 GMT -5
Man Vance, those are really nice cabs. Is that the same as a palm jasper out of Mexico? I'll have to post a couple of pics of some I bought from my Mexican miner friends. I couldn't figure out what the heck it is but mine has fans when cut the other way so I thought maybe some kind of sagenite-type pseudo after barite or something....mel
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stefan
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Post by stefan on Jul 24, 2007 12:32:21 GMT -5
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Jul 24, 2007 17:11:21 GMT -5
Howdy Vance, Here are a couple of pics of the material I got from some Mexcian prospectors called "Palm Jasper or Palm Agate" When cut perpendicular to the fans it has those spots like your cabs but the fan shape would indicate it's not really palm but rather some kind of sagenite or other pseudomorph. Is this the same material you've got in your cabs? Man I'd sure like to know for sure what the stuff is!....Mel   |
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free4rms
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Post by free4rms on Jul 24, 2007 20:36:05 GMT -5
Wow, Mel...I have no doubt that your rock is the same as mine! I really don't know what to make of the fan pattern, but everything else about it says "palm". At any rate, if you haven't cut any cabs out of this yet, you should get some fantastic pieces out of it. If and when you do cab some, be sure to let us take a look. Thanks for posting these rocks.
Vance
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