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This is a Dryhead agate slice made into a belt buckle from the Hauser collection. It is a perfect slice for a belt buckle with great banding and a quartz center and visible inflow/escape tube. It has a mirror polish.
This is a beautiful Dryhead agate cabochon from the Hauser collection. It is an excellently crafted cabochon with bands of earth colors and matrix showing. The edge is about a quarter of an edge to set or just display. The back edges are rough in a couple of spots. There are no fractures and it has a mirror polish.
This is a Dryhead agate slice from Montana in the Hauser collection. It has excellent banding in earth colors with brown matrix. There are no fractures and it is polished but, not up to mirror polish.
This is a Dryhead agate slice from Montana in the Hauser collection. It is a beautiful slice, well banded with a crystal quartz center. It does have a couple of hairline fractures that are stable. It has a mirror polish.
This is a Dryhead agate slice from Montana and the Hauser collection. It is a well banded Dryhead with a crystal quartz center. This would make a good cutter to make a cabochon. It is not equal thickness and has a couple of stable fractures. It is polished but, not to mirror polish.
This is a Laguna agate from the Alianza claim in Chihuahua that produces the most beautiful Lagunas in my view. This one has beautiful banding in gold and pinks with a great eye and two crystal quartz areas with the larger one showing off a cute quartz crystal. There are pseudomorphs in the milky chalcedony with quartz in the opening at lower right and you can see quartz sparkling on the out skin as well. It has an amazing mirror polish.
This is a gorgeous Laguna agate from the Alianza claim in Chihuahua, Mexico. I believe the best Lagunas come from Alianza and this one is no exception. It has blue, pink and white banding around a closed crystal quartz center, It has two great little pseudomorph structures in it and the half circles at the bottom look like hematite. There are no fractures and it has a glass polish.
This is a Laguna agate from the Alianza claim in Chihuahua, Mexico. This claim produces the most beautiful Lagunas in my view. This one has lovely white scalloped banding around red and gold banding in the middle with crystal quartz and calcite crystals in the center. There are no fractures and it has a gorgeous glass polish.
This is a very large Baker Ranch thunderegg from Deming, New Mexico. It has the typical color banding of a Baker with a lot of crystal quartz in the center and an opening with matter covering a botryiodal interior. It is from the Hauser collection and sort of looks like a fish. It has a few hairline fractures in the agate portion and it has a mirror polish.
This is a Baker Ranch thunderegg from Deming, New Mexico. It is unusual for a Baker in that it doesn't have much of the classic coloring but, it does have two amethyst centers and both are closed. There is a chip out of the matrix on the upper left and it has an excellent polish from the Hauser collection.
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