elementary
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Post by elementary on Jun 16, 2012 22:40:26 GMT -5
Last March we had an opal dealer from Australia at our annual show. He came wandering over to talk to one of our members, who's a fossil guy, with this plastic bin under his arm. When he opened it up, very carefully, its contents caught my eye. I asked if I could take a couple photos. He had opalized specimens of baculite and shellfish. I just shot a couple as the prices (you can see one listed) made me feel very cautious about shifting the pieces too much to catch the light. Enjoy: Snail: Baculite: I may never own one of these, but at least I can say I had one in my hand....for maybe 5 seconds.... Enjoy, Lowell
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Post by Pat on Jun 16, 2012 23:00:07 GMT -5
I've never seen such before. Opalized anything is beautiful!
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Post by NatureNut on Jun 16, 2012 23:04:59 GMT -5
Wow, was that a thousand dollar price tag on the first one? Jo
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Fossilman
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Post by Fossilman on Jun 17, 2012 9:30:57 GMT -5
Cool,that looks like a belemnite,not a baculite................opal fossils are cool..........
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elementary
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Post by elementary on Jun 17, 2012 12:16:59 GMT -5
Fossilman,
You could be right. I ain't in no way a fossil guy. I just remembered vaguely from that conversation 3 months ago that it started with a B.
Thanks for the heads up... Maybe I should change the title to "Long Pointy Beautiful Dead Thing I Can't Afford..."
Lowell
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Post by helens on Jun 17, 2012 13:15:14 GMT -5
Wow... that's so neat!!! I was just now looking up photos of Idaho spencer opals to price some of the rough I bought, and ran across this: www.holeystones.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=58I would have thought someone was crazy for asking $1000 for a rock til I saw the one above... relative to the price they are asking for a spencer opal, $1000 for an opal in a baculite seems pretty darn cheap in comparison!!!
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adrian65
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Post by adrian65 on Jun 17, 2012 23:06:25 GMT -5
:drool: :drool: :drool:
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Post by gingerkid on Jun 19, 2012 11:46:31 GMT -5
Thanks for taking some pics and sharing them with all of us! The shell fish is cute and love the play-of-color in it. The belemnites are really pretty and the partial (?) has some nice poc, too.
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rockingthenorth
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Post by rockingthenorth on Jun 19, 2012 15:09:46 GMT -5
Those are Awesome fossils
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