Petoskey Stone Wine Stopper

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Petoskey Stone Wine Stoppers are metal wine stoppers with a 2″ to 3″ diameter polished Petoskey Stone attached to the top. The total length of the wine stopper is about 5″. The coloring is a light and dark gray with excellent markings of the coral.

The Petoskey Stone is “THE” state stone of our beautiful state – Michigan! A real jewel for any wine lover! Choose a Petoskey stone wine stopper for your favorite wine or give it as a gift.

Choose a round mushroom, a flat circular, or a peaked bulb shaped Petoskey stone as shown below. Due to the uniqueness of the Petoskey stone, no two wine stoppers are the same.

A Petoskey stone wine bottle stopper is perfect for a housewarming or hostess gift. Also makes a beautiful and unique gift for groomsmen, bridal shower, birthday, fathers day, retirement, anniversary, or new job.

Select Shape   Round   Circular   Bulb

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$45.00

Round Style

Circular Style

Bulb Style

Petoskey Stones are masses of fossil colony coral, Hexagonaria percarinata. They occur abundantly in Devonian about 350 million years ago.

Coral groups weathered out of the limestone were widely scattered by Pleistocene glacial action. They are readily found on beaches and in gravel deposits as pebbles and cobbles rounded by erosion. Petoskey is the English adaptation of either “Be-dos-e-gay” or “Petosegay,” an Ottawa Indian word and variant meaning “sun rays of the dawn.”

Michigan was extensively resurfaced by glaciers during the Pleistocene (the last 1.6 million years), and as part of this process, moving glaciers plucked up pieces of the bedrock and carried them along, smoothing and rounding them in transport. This accounts for the regular shapes of Petoskey Stones found today.