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This is a Island agate from Madagascar. This is a well banded and water level agate in colors of yellow and white. It has a great skin with the agate patterns visible and very smooth. There are no fractures and it has a mirror polish.
This is a excellent Moroccan agate. It has wonderful banding with parallax at the bottom right. It has a combo center/inflow/escape tube with a crystal quartz center that is slightly open. It has two other inflow/escape tubes. The bands are white and gray with a red band around the outer edge. There are no fractures and it has a mirror polish.
This is very nice Polyhedroid agate from Brazil. It has a deep white band floating within the outermost band. It has a crystal quartz center with a black and tan agate center fading deep into the polyhedroid body. There are no fractures and it has a mirror polish.
This is Purple Passion agate from Mexico. It is found in chunks from large seams, not as nodules. This Purple Passion is a beauty. The agate is floating and has a beautiful purple middle with a crystal quartz center feeding into the inflow/escape tube. The white banding is filled with black micro spheres. There is a fracture on the bottom right side with a chip out of the agate formation. It has a mirror polish.
This is a Laguna agate slice from the Hauser collection. This is a beautiful Laguna slice polished on both sides. It has excellent banding in colors of orange, gold, brown, blue and white with a white center and two inflow/escape tubes. One tube has a slightly open center. I see a couple of healed fractures on both sides and both sides have a mirror polish.
This is a perfect Laguna agate slice from the Hauser collection. It has red, orange and gold banding around a crystal quartz center with pink agate features around an open center. The last photo is backlit. It has a mirror polish on both sides and no fractures
This is a Laguna agate slice floater from the Hauser collection. This thick Laguna slice has double floaters of agate in clear silica. The colors are brown and beige and it has an excellent inflow/escape tube. The last photo is backlit. There is a healed fracture on the left side and it has a mirror polish on one side.
This is a Laguna agate slice floater from the Hauser collection. This Laguna slice has red, gold and white banding that floats in clear silica. It has a perfect inflow/escape tube and parallaxes nicely. There are no fractures and it has a mirror polish on both sides.
This is a Laguna contour polished agate from the Hauser collection. This Laguna has lavender, pink and white banding with an open crystal quartz center. There are a few healed fractures and the agate formation is brecciated. Contour polishing was Joel Hauser's specialty and shows off more of the agate than a flat polish. It has a mirror polish.
This is a contour polished Condor agate from the Hauser collection. This is a dark red and orange Condor with a high dome contour polish. There are two healed fractures and there is crystal quartz in the closed center. It has a mirror polish. Please excuse my fingerprint.
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