mossyrockhound
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Post by mossyrockhound on Nov 27, 2018 21:57:15 GMT -5
Hello All, I bought this limb cast probably 20 years ago from a private party, but never took a picture of it until tonight. It is my favorite limb cast and measures about 6-inches in diameter. It has an agate rind all the way around it that nicely shows the pattern of the bark. If anyone knows where this may have been found, please let me know (I would go a long way for another one like this one). Thanks for looking!  |
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Post by MsAli on Nov 27, 2018 23:02:03 GMT -5
That is wild!
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Nov 27, 2018 23:28:52 GMT -5
Wish I could help with the id, but that is one gorgeous piece!
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fishnpinball
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Post by fishnpinball on Nov 27, 2018 23:58:11 GMT -5
Blue forest could be one possibility.
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mossyrockhound
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Post by mossyrockhound on Nov 28, 2018 1:03:24 GMT -5
Blue forest could be one possibility. I've got quite a few Blue Forest pieces but I've never seen one with moss in it. You're right about the agate rind on many of the Blue forest pieces though. |
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Post by Garage Rocker on Nov 28, 2018 1:04:49 GMT -5
It has aged beautifully. If I knew where it came from, I'd probably have already been there myself. Very nice!
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Post by rockjunquie on Nov 28, 2018 6:31:18 GMT -5
No help, but I have to say - that is gorgeous!
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Post by roy on Nov 28, 2018 11:56:33 GMT -5
That looks to be a hampton butte specimen
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Post by mossyrockhound on Nov 28, 2018 12:43:37 GMT -5
Thanks to all for your comnents. roy, I've only dug Hampton Butte once, and didn't find anything remotely similar to this (all the stuff I got looked like chunks of green jasper). However, someone from here (Steve Holms?) posted a beauty from there some years back, so maybe it's time to re-visit the area. |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 28, 2018 13:41:57 GMT -5
That would be one of my favorites, too. Although I haven't seen anything exactly like that from Hampton Butte, there is moss agate in some (and also in some of nearby Congleton Hollow, Dendrite Butte and Bear Creek areas). Could have come from somewhere else in the Clarno Formation, or from Washington (Yakima River canyon has some mossy limb casts), Wyoming (Wiggins Fork), Madagascar, Romania. Thing about limb casts is that you can find an exceptional piece in an area and search for a long time all around it and not come up with anything similar, even though you'd think that they all formed under the same conditions and should be fairly similar. Yours might just be another of those one-off finds, regardless of from where it came.
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Post by woodman on Nov 28, 2018 14:57:36 GMT -5
These two are from Hampton butte that i dug this past fall.   |
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Post by mossyrockhound on Nov 28, 2018 18:29:37 GMT -5
Those 2 are sweet! Especially the second one - I think it is the closest to what I have.
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Post by vegasjames on Nov 28, 2018 19:28:03 GMT -5
Beautiful specimen.
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Post by roy on Nov 29, 2018 11:44:08 GMT -5
 Untitled by Roy Kessell, on Flickr THIS LIMB CAST I DUG AT HAMPTON MANY YEARS AGO IT WAS HIGHLY FRACTURED SO THIS WHAT WAS LEFT OF THE SLAB |
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Post by woodman on Nov 29, 2018 18:21:21 GMT -5
Untitled by Roy Kessell, on Flickr THIS LIMB CAST I DUG AT HAMPTON MANY YEARS AGO IT WAS HIGHLY FRACTURED SO THIS WHAT WAS LEFT OF THE SLAB I am always amazed by the wide range of colors one finds at Hampton Butte. |
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Post by beefjello on Nov 29, 2018 19:45:59 GMT -5
Hello All, I bought this limb cast probably 20 years ago from a private party, but never took a picture of it until tonight. It is my favorite limb cast and measures about 6-inches in diameter. It has an agate rind all the way around it that nicely shows the pattern of the bark. If anyone knows where this may have been found, please let me know (I would go a long way for another one like this one). Thanks for looking! Oh my!  |
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realrockhound
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Post by realrockhound on Nov 3, 2021 22:43:54 GMT -5
Nice finds guys. I always love seeing what others are collecting/own
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Post by Peruano on Nov 4, 2021 6:27:10 GMT -5
I've only wandered around the rock shop in Marfa on one occasion but the color and dispersal of the plumes look like Marfa Agate to my unsophisticated eye. Whether there are limb casts expected there is not clear.
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Sabre52
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Post by Sabre52 on Nov 17, 2021 21:41:11 GMT -5
Mossy, plumey limb casts like that are fairly common around George West Texas. Some are totally moss agate replacements inside with only slight evidence they were ever pet wood. Colors in your example look like the ones from that part of Texas too.
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