mystickoi
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Post by mystickoi on Dec 11, 2011 0:20:25 GMT -5
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rockhound97058
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Thundereggs - Oregons Official State Rock!
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Post by rockhound97058 on Dec 11, 2011 0:53:38 GMT -5
Wonder if the girl comes with it to pack it around for me lmao!
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SteveHolmes
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Post by SteveHolmes on Dec 11, 2011 1:10:47 GMT -5
That is actually pretty spectacular! I was curious as to the sellers other items., so I looked through them. Some neat skulls and alien carvings. Still don't know how they make all these things! steve
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rockhound97058
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Post by rockhound97058 on Dec 11, 2011 1:54:43 GMT -5
The seller was in china wasn't he/she. I would bet most these items are ground in sweat shop's just like 90% of all chinese material. Poor guys probably only live 20 years breathing all the silica dust.
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Post by kk on Dec 11, 2011 3:30:50 GMT -5
Rikko is not making them. I have bought from them quite a few finished pieces years ago, and at the time they already told me that they are buying from workshops all over China for reselling.
I stopped buying Pietersite at the time they started treating it in China. I don't know if Rikko does it, but I lost my appetite for it since.
In any case, quality was always better from them than the others who have offers.
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carloscinco
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Post by carloscinco on Dec 11, 2011 13:54:58 GMT -5
Drill three holes in it and you can knock down a few pins.
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NDK
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Post by NDK on Dec 11, 2011 20:41:59 GMT -5
I wonder how much that weighs? Sure is beautiful.
Nate
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keystonecops
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Post by keystonecops on Dec 11, 2011 21:23:29 GMT -5
The write up says it wieghs 272# Later Clyde
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Post by talkingstones on Dec 11, 2011 21:47:14 GMT -5
Ok...aside from taking pictures of a supermodel wearing a slip with high heels in quazi erotic poses with this...what, exactly would one pay $510,000.00...because it is now running at a 15% discount, to do with this thing? (and this is coming from a woman who has a 16" piece of mica schist displayed in her living room with a Santa hat on it because it looks cool) Seriously, what would you do with it?
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peachfront
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Post by peachfront on Dec 11, 2011 22:54:24 GMT -5
At that size for a sphere, you could display it in a formal garden. I have nothing on that scale, so most of my spheres are collected in a mineral cabinet. What do you do with any piece of art? Show it off!!!! Stone art is actually the most affordable of the arts. We are standing around in awe over a 600K piece. Yet serious paintings go for $10 million and upwards -- and have done so since the 1980s. Heck, a television episode can cost more than $600K and what do you do with that? Same thing you do with the sphere. You look at it. We need to have more respect for our own art.
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Post by ColtChainmailJewelryDesigns on Dec 12, 2011 4:59:49 GMT -5
notice the shipping is about 2 grand! haha, jezz!
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Post by kk on Dec 12, 2011 8:52:24 GMT -5
What to do with it? Here in Asia, people have a penchant for putting a piece that size on a pedestal that is fed with water from underneath. Once the friction is gone you can turn a thing like that with your pinky. Its found as centerpieces at rich peoples homes, shopping-centers and hotel-lobbies. We had one hotel (the Hilton) displaying a piece (Granite, I suppose) with a diameter of 120 cm (a yard and a foot). Once you got that thing rolling it did not stop due to the water underneath building pressure and directionality.
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Minnesota Daniel
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A COUPLE LAKERS
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Post by Minnesota Daniel on Dec 16, 2011 23:53:19 GMT -5
For centuries, the Chinese have carved raw jade into priceless works of art. Making a sphere like this one certainly takes skill, but it isn't art. Think of all the Pietersite on the inside of that sphere that no one will ever be able to appreciate. If you ask me, that's a really stupid waste of a good piece of rough.
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Post by Toad on Dec 17, 2011 11:27:48 GMT -5
Meh...
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WarrenA
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Post by WarrenA on Dec 18, 2011 0:19:03 GMT -5
I wish I had the piece of rough that they made the sphere from. I would be slabbing and cabbing for the rest of my life
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peachfront
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Post by peachfront on Dec 18, 2011 10:22:55 GMT -5
Well...in my humble opinion I think that to create a perfect sphere of that size is an amazing achievement. There is a Chinese sourced giant Quartz (Rock Crystal) sphere in the National Museum in Washington, so at least there is one other person (a Smithsonian curator) who can see the art of these giant spheres.
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Post by Tonyterner on Dec 29, 2011 8:34:13 GMT -5
Only $600,000? I'll take 2. lol Seriously that is an amazing piece of work.
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