Plains Elbow Stone Pipe bowl

I do not know what to call this type of stone, but it certainly is beautiful, showing much variations within the strata from beige to deep red. Perhaps it’s a type of marble? There are clear signs that this pipe was used with blacking on the outer surfaces and on the inside. The pipe end […]

Petrified Wood Bookends

North America, Southwestern United States, Arizona, Late Triassic, ca. 225 million years ago. The trunk was sliced crossways and sharp 90 degree sides, then highly polished on one of the planar faces to showcase the interior rings of the tree that have fossilized (petrified) into quartz and agate – the minerals that replaced the once […]