An especially powerful agate washed out of the Black Sea onto Turkish shores. This one is big and has lots and lots of color and lots and lots of different kinds of it. There are brown, yellow, orange, pink, and white bands. And all of them are bright, distinct, and color coordinated to emphasize the agate’s pink face. Is the agate embarrassed? It washed up out of the belly of the Black Sea and is perfectly cut and polished to show off something you’ve likely never seen before. I’m talking about this amazing feature: the agates’s pink float appears ensnared in the white threads of some strange kind of spider web. The web is torn but not broken. Where it yet holds, the threads tighten about the float, taking its shape and marking incrementally the float trapped in the web. I’ve never seen an agate like this one before. Maybe you haven’t either. Washed up out of the Black Sea, it has been perfectly polished. This half nodule measures approximately 7″ x 1 1/8″ x 2 3/4 and weighs 1 lb. If you are unfamiliar with Turkish agates, I hope you will take a moment to look at and appreciate them. All of my Turkish agates are totally authentic and 100% natural. They are straight cut on a rock saw and then professionally polished. No dyes, heatings, or other mischief going on with them. These Turkish agates are not like the simple banded agates we might be accustomed to seeing. They are quite different, and challenge our perceptions of what a fine agate is. While many-maybe most-agates from around the world appear to have been composed by orderly, ongoing, and predictable geological processes, these agates are chaotic. They shock our cultivated sensibilities. They are compositionally complex and suggestive of disorderly, even spasmodic geological processes. It is their remarkable translucence which allows for the exploration and examination of these agates and their disparate and novel features. In each of my listings, I try to point out what is new and unique in these agates. I hope you will give them a look.