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Natural high-pattern Petoskey stones, collected by hand on the shores of Lake Michigan and on private land in Northern Michigan.
You will receive 94 stones, 8 ounces total, ranging from approximately one half inch to one inch each. The exact stones shown in the photos are the stones you will receive. No substitutions.
These are hand-picked for patterning. Each stone shows strong, clearly defined hexagonal corallite structure across the surface. They are unpolished, so while the pattern reads well as-is, some stones will reveal more of it once polished or tumbled. Natural variation from stone to stone is part of what makes each one different.
At this size the stones work especially well for jewelry making and wire-wrapping, and the count makes them a good starting supply for anyone working through a project.
Natural, unpolished, and naturally lake-tumbled, found as-is straight from the shoreline. Washed and lightly oiled to bring out the detail. The oil can be rinsed off or reapplied any time for the wet look. Chips, cracks, and natural erosion are expected and normal for shoreline-collected specimens.
Well suited for collecting, display, jewelry making, wire-wrapping, lapidary work, rockhounding, educational use, and gifts.
Photos show the front, back, all angles and details, as well as a tape measure for size reference.
Ships quickly and carefully by the next business day from a smoke and pet free home.
ABOUT PETOSKEY STONES
Petoskey stones are fossilized colonial coral, Hexagonaria percarinata, that lived in the warm shallow sea covering this region during the Devonian period roughly 350 million years ago. Glaciers later broke the fossil beds apart and scattered the pieces across Northern Michigan, where Lake Michigan continues to tumble and expose them along the shoreline. The distinctive six-sided pattern is the preserved skeleton of the individual coral polyps. The Petoskey stone was named the Michigan state stone in 1965 and is found in significant quantity almost nowhere else in the world.
