![]() Petrified forests have been found all over the world, but the forest in Calistoga is remarkable for the sheer size of the enormous redwoods preserved, some thought to have been as old as 2000 years when they were felled. The resulting stone fossils retain all of the markings of the original trees, including bark, rings, and knots, and lie exactly as they fell millions of years ago. Once buried in volcanic ash and deprived of oxygen, over a period ranging from a hundred to hundreds of thousands of years, the organic materials that make up organic matter, like trees, are replaced by silica. Their grey stone effigies were uncovered in 1857 and excavated over the following decades. 3.5 million years ago an ancient volcano knocked down and buried a forest, including a grove of enormous redwoods. All items are sold in the same condition as when I received them.The same turbulent forces that heat the waters of Calistoga’s famous hot springs and geysers once turned a forest to stone. I do not know if they came from homes where smoking or pets were present. Seller reserves the right to void any international transactions where contact has not been made prior to purchasing.Īll items in my listings come from either estate or garage sales. PAYPAL WILL NOT BE ACCEPTED FOR INTERNATIONAL PURCHASES. Orders will be processed after funds have cleared a U.S. If you are uncomfortable with that, send me a message with your zip code and stating which items you'll be purchasing and I'll calculate the correct combined shipping charges and send you a custom invoice.ĭue to claims that merchandise is not being received at various international countries (although Customs tracking verifies the delivery), I will no longer be able to process international orders unless payment is made with U.S. At checkout, you will be charged full shipping price on each item purchased and I will refund the appropriate amount of over payment. I do combine shipping on multiple items purchased, but as stated above, my web host is not set up to calculate multiple item shipping costs. If you over pay on the shipping charges, I refund an appropriate amount to cover the over payment OR if you'd like to send me a message stating your zip code and the item you are interested in, I can quote you an exact shipping charge and send you a custom invoice with an accurate shipping charge. My feedback page will show verification that I do return overpayments.Īs a buyer, there are two choices. When I return the overage, I usually do so by including cash inside the package when it's shipped. My web host is not equipped to figure calculated shipping, so I have to quote a shipping charge using the east coast as the final destination and then refund over payments. To complicate this even further, Google will not show items for sale unless they have a designated cost, or unless the seller uses calculated shipping. I am in Nevada and probably 90% of the packages I mail go eastward, and a majority of them go all the way to the east coast. Now it is not possible to state a shipping cost and have it be valid regardless if the package is traveling 2 miles or all the way to the east coast. Now, the postal service has divided the United States in to 8 zones and all packages are charged by weight, size, and destination zone. Packages weighing over 1 pound were priced by what the destination zipcode was. A package weighing less than one pound cost the same amount regardless if it was mailed 2 miles away, or from coast to coast. Before the 2019 increase, shipping costs were based on weight. This year's increase is beyond any we've seen in previous years. Postal Service increases the shipping prices. SPECIAL NOTE ABOUT POSSIBLE PARTIAL REFUND OF SHIPPING CHARGES:Įvery January the U.S. With the enlarged photo, the bottom looks to have a crack, but that's just the way it was cut and is very normal.īuyer to pay USPS Small Flat Rate Parcel delivery charges of $9.95. It measures about 3.5 by 4.5 inches and stands an inch tall. I suspect that it may have come from Mexico because someone wrote 45000 on the bottom and that looks like a price you'd see in Mexico. I obtained this petrified wood ashtray recently at an estate sale, so I have no information regarding when or where it came from. ![]()
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