Red Plume Agate - Oregon, USA

This is quite a special piece for me, after sourcing a lovely slab of this material from a guy in California, I had looked forwards to cutting it for ages. The little slab was going to yield either 2 or 3 small stones, 25x18 and under, or one big one! Guess which option I went for? You can imagine my delight at the finished article!

The red plume patterns are truly mesmerising and the depth of beauty shown by the fortification banding running thorough it is quite superb! The stone was very hard and took a lot of careful shaping to develop the height and shape to the dome, but the overall profile was good and even. At 40x30mm it's as large as I generally cut, and the silver plated setting lets the beauty shine around. I was more than happy with this effort!

40x30mm Red Plume Agate - Oregon, USA