mattman1979
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Post by mattman1979 on Oct 5, 2022 18:44:41 GMT -5
Updating Pics as info gathered - Thanks The owner of the shop I have my products in offered me these when I mentioned I had began my lapidary and rock tumbling Journey. He said stop buy to get my check and he would bring in what he had picked up at an auction and I could have first dibs. I honestly do not know what all I have here. He says the large rocks are Turquoise, there's a nice, petrified wood log, Misc Slabs, Completed misc. tumbles, Amethyst, I believe a nice chunk of Pink Amethyst, Tiger Eye, Obsidian, snowflake obsidian, many others I do not know and lots of glass slag. Everything for $100.00 Pic 1 Pic 2 Pic 3 Chrysocolla ? 2-1/4lbs Pic4 Chrysocolla ? 3-1/2lbs Pic 5 Chrysocolla ? 4lbs Pic 6a lol - ha ha 13-1/2lb Red landscaping block painted and decorated to look like a stone. Pic 6b Took me about 1 minute to figure out something wasn't right with it this morning. Took a chisel to the corner and sure enough, concrete. lol Glad I got a great deal on everything Pic 7 Petrified Log - 11-3/4lbs Pic 8 Porcelain/sci-fi/exotica jasper .8lbs Pic 9 Snowflake Obsidian Pic 10 ? 1-1/2lbs Pic 11 ? 4lbs Pic 12 Porcelain/sci-fi/exotica jasper ? .8lbs Pic 13 Misc. Slabs 5lbs Chrysocolla, Rhodonite, Agates, Jaspers ? Pic 14 Red opaque lead slag glass 5-1/2lbs Pic 15 Clear/red/orange/blue and green slag glass 2-3/4lbs Pic 16 Blue slag glass 7-1/2lbs Pic 17 Rough Amethyst chunks 2lbs Pic 18 Pic 19
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Post by hummingbirdstones2 on Oct 5, 2022 19:22:43 GMT -5
The red and large brilliant blue ones could be slag glass. Good score if it's red glass. Gold is used to make red glass. (Robin taught me that.)
Saw a piece of blue chrysocolla in one of the earlier photos that looks like it has some translucent material (gem silica?) in it.
Some do look like turquoise. Triangular chunk before the snowflake could be porcelain/sci-fi/exotica jasper.
Good deal for you. You should be well-pleased with that lot.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 5, 2022 19:48:53 GMT -5
Thats a nice deal!
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Post by jasoninsd on Oct 5, 2022 20:06:07 GMT -5
Way to freakin' go! There really does look to be some great looking material in there!!
I agree with Vince on the Sci-Fi (Exotica) Jasper. Looks like there's two pieces of that...
That triangular piece of sky-blue material is jaw-droppingly gorgeous!!
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Post by vance71975 on Oct 5, 2022 23:18:06 GMT -5
HOLY FREAKIN HELL WHAT A SCORE!!!!!!!!
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Post by mattman1979 on Oct 6, 2022 11:32:52 GMT -5
Photos updated with info and numbered. Make sure you check out Pic 6a and 6b. lol
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2022 11:55:23 GMT -5
They did a good paint job lol!
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Post by pebblesky on Oct 6, 2022 13:23:32 GMT -5
Photos updated with info and numbered. Make sure you check out Pic 6a and 6b. lol Hmm...
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Post by rockjunquie on Oct 8, 2022 5:39:39 GMT -5
I agree that 3 looks like gem silica.
Nice haul!!
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Post by vegasjames on Oct 8, 2022 6:39:55 GMT -5
The red and large brilliant blue ones could be slag glass. Good score if it's red glass. Gold is used to make red glass. (Robin taught me that.)
Saw a piece of blue chrysocolla in one of the earlier photos that looks like it has some translucent material (gem silica?) in it.
Some do look like turquoise. Triangular chunk before the snowflake could be porcelain/sci-fi/exotica jasper.
Good deal for you. You should be well-pleased with that lot.
The red ad the blue do look like cullet glass, but gold is not always used to make the red. Copper can also be used to make red cullet glass.
Gold was mainly used to create the thin red layer with flashed glass. The gold had to be in a colloidal form of the proper size and shape to create the dark red glass known as ruby glass.
Copper is often used in higher concentrations to form a dark red glass to try and mimic ruby glass, and in lower quantities can form a turquoise colored glass.
The red cullet glass in this thread though appears to have been colored red by selenium, which is the most common impurity used to form red glass these days, but it does not form the deep ruby red of gold or copper salts.
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Post by rockjunquie on Oct 8, 2022 7:02:34 GMT -5
The red and large brilliant blue ones could be slag glass. Good score if it's red glass. Gold is used to make red glass. (Robin taught me that.)
Saw a piece of blue chrysocolla in one of the earlier photos that looks like it has some translucent material (gem silica?) in it.
Some do look like turquoise. Triangular chunk before the snowflake could be porcelain/sci-fi/exotica jasper.
Good deal for you. You should be well-pleased with that lot.
The red ad the blue do look like cullet glass, but gold is not always used to make the red. Copper can also be used to make red cullet glass.
Gold was mainly used to create the thin red layer with flashed glass. The gold had to be in a colloidal form of the proper size and shape to create the dark red glass known as ruby glass.
Copper is often used in higher concentrations to form a dark red glass to try and mimic ruby glass, and in lower quantities can form a turquoise colored glass.
The red cullet glass in this thread though appears to have been colored red by selenium, which is the most common impurity used to form red glass these days, but it does not form the deep ruby red of gold or copper salts.
When I was blowing glass, we would atomize gold in the flame to stick on hot glass behind it. It would turn it a beautiful pink. I would save the broken pieces of finished items that had 24 gold accents. I would then "fume" (what we called it) the gold onto the glass.
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Post by vegasjames on Oct 8, 2022 7:28:41 GMT -5
The red ad the blue do look like cullet glass, but gold is not always used to make the red. Copper can also be used to make red cullet glass.
Gold was mainly used to create the thin red layer with flashed glass. The gold had to be in a colloidal form of the proper size and shape to create the dark red glass known as ruby glass.
Copper is often used in higher concentrations to form a dark red glass to try and mimic ruby glass, and in lower quantities can form a turquoise colored glass.
The red cullet glass in this thread though appears to have been colored red by selenium, which is the most common impurity used to form red glass these days, but it does not form the deep ruby red of gold or copper salts.
When I was blowing glass, we would atomize gold in the flame to stick on hot glass behind it. It would turn it a beautiful pink. I would save the broken pieces of finished items that had 24 gold accents. I would then "fume" (what we called it) the gold onto the glass. Yes, I am familiar with fuming. My brother used to blow glass. He apprenticed under Kemp Curtis who was the number 2 glass blower in the country at the time. I would go down and do their frosting (sand blasting) of the glass. When I was bored I would go through Kemp's library and read his books on glass and glass art techniques, which is where I learned a lot about glass.
My brother would often make full size glass roses and would use the gold to fume them purple or silver for yellow. He also made a lot of hummingbird sculptures with a flower and would fume those flowers as well.
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Post by rockjunquie on Oct 8, 2022 7:32:59 GMT -5
When I was blowing glass, we would atomize gold in the flame to stick on hot glass behind it. It would turn it a beautiful pink. I would save the broken pieces of finished items that had 24 gold accents. I would then "fume" (what we called it) the gold onto the glass. Yes, I am familiar with fuming. My brother used to blow glass. He apprenticed under Kemp Curtis who was the number 2 glass blower in the country at the time. I would go down and do their frosting (sand blasting) of the glass. When I was bored I would go through Kemp's library and read his books on glass and glass art techniques, which is where I learned a lot about glass.
My brother would often make full size glass roses and would use the gold to fume them purple or silver for yellow. He also made a lot of hummingbird sculptures with a flower and would fume those flowers as well.
I did flowers, hummingbirds, dolphins, big roses- all of it. Fuming was fun, but I sometimes wonder how safe it was. We had good ventilation, but you never know. I had a shop set up in my shed for personal work and scavenged silver coins to do fuming.
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