Post by elementary on Feb 20, 2011 18:52:04 GMT -5
(Thought I was starting this on the Members Section but forgot I had gone to browse elsewhere...so sorry for the misplaced posting...)
A local rockhound passed and his widow put up his rough for sale.
He was into spheres so there was a lot of large chunks of stone.
I packed up about 60 pounds in an hour.
(Warning - Me standing on soapbox for paragraph)
Again, I picked up material that other people pushed aside, not recognizing it. Truly, if you live in a place where these kinds of sales take place, to get the best deals and material, you have to study agates/jaspers to the point of recognizing them by sight. "It's pretty" is a great beginning to creating a collection, but if you want depth without excessive cost, then these sales are your best friend - if you can recognize the rare/unusual/expensive material for what it is. If someone else recognizes it first - it's gone.
Point - The Owlshead material is from a closed location now within Death Valley. (The only other person with this material I've known is Mel, who provided me with a bucket of material when he moved from CA a few years ago.) The sale had been going on for an hour and about two dozen people had been through the bins in the garage, when I walked through and found the nodules. One look of a cut side gave me the I.D. and a thus a shoebox of material from a closed locality.
Here is a sampling of what left with me.
Rainbow Ridge, CA
Some Rhodonite, - Most likely CA
Marcasite
Turritella Agate , Wy
Snakeskin Agate - Rome, OR
Fancy Jasper, Africa (Label on back - price is not what I paid)
Crazy Lace, Mx
Moss agates - Possibly Horse Canyon
Owlshead Mtns Nodules and Sagenite
Morgan Hill Poppy Jasper, Ca
Plume - Normally I would say Graveyard, but Kanan Road - which is near the sale - also produces plume....Hmmmm
Chapinite - Siam Siding, CA
And my two karma stones:
I've come to believe that the more you give away, the more returns back to you. Recently I gave a large piece of whalebone and a piece of Stone Canyon Jasper to Woody when I met him in the South Cady's. He's posted pictures of the cut material.
Here's what I found at the sale:
Whalebone:
and Stone Canyon Jasper:
and one mystery - (yeah, I'm a hypocrite - I'm still learning the jaspers....)
Oh, and the price for all this (plus the 30 lbs of stuff I didn't photograph)? $.30 a pound. Yeah. 30 cents a pound.
I paid $18.00 for everything you saw here.
Lowell
A local rockhound passed and his widow put up his rough for sale.
He was into spheres so there was a lot of large chunks of stone.
I packed up about 60 pounds in an hour.
(Warning - Me standing on soapbox for paragraph)
Again, I picked up material that other people pushed aside, not recognizing it. Truly, if you live in a place where these kinds of sales take place, to get the best deals and material, you have to study agates/jaspers to the point of recognizing them by sight. "It's pretty" is a great beginning to creating a collection, but if you want depth without excessive cost, then these sales are your best friend - if you can recognize the rare/unusual/expensive material for what it is. If someone else recognizes it first - it's gone.
Point - The Owlshead material is from a closed location now within Death Valley. (The only other person with this material I've known is Mel, who provided me with a bucket of material when he moved from CA a few years ago.) The sale had been going on for an hour and about two dozen people had been through the bins in the garage, when I walked through and found the nodules. One look of a cut side gave me the I.D. and a thus a shoebox of material from a closed locality.
Here is a sampling of what left with me.
Rainbow Ridge, CA
Some Rhodonite, - Most likely CA
Marcasite
Turritella Agate , Wy
Snakeskin Agate - Rome, OR
Fancy Jasper, Africa (Label on back - price is not what I paid)
Crazy Lace, Mx
Moss agates - Possibly Horse Canyon
Owlshead Mtns Nodules and Sagenite
Morgan Hill Poppy Jasper, Ca
Plume - Normally I would say Graveyard, but Kanan Road - which is near the sale - also produces plume....Hmmmm
Chapinite - Siam Siding, CA
And my two karma stones:
I've come to believe that the more you give away, the more returns back to you. Recently I gave a large piece of whalebone and a piece of Stone Canyon Jasper to Woody when I met him in the South Cady's. He's posted pictures of the cut material.
Here's what I found at the sale:
Whalebone:
and Stone Canyon Jasper:
and one mystery - (yeah, I'm a hypocrite - I'm still learning the jaspers....)
Oh, and the price for all this (plus the 30 lbs of stuff I didn't photograph)? $.30 a pound. Yeah. 30 cents a pound.
I paid $18.00 for everything you saw here.
Lowell