More Petrified Wood (and other materials) (2 Many Photos)
Aug 4, 2013 21:24:16 GMT -5
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Post by elementary on Aug 4, 2013 21:24:16 GMT -5
The Estate Sale Myrle Kirk, 95 year old former member of my club, continued this weekend. I headed over there to see if there was additional petrified wood I could snag. They had lowered the price so I loaded up and 100 lbs of various materials.
I also bought a special something for my wife which got her interested in the sale as well and we went back today to find the rock at 50 cents a pound, so i bought another bushel load.
Here's the highlights starting with the petrified wood:
The stuff without ID tags:
Large piece not labeled but most solid/largest specimen I got.
Some pieces from near the Colorado River:
Love the detail preserved in them:
Usual stuff:
Gabbs
Sperry Wash, CA
Some rarer or more unusual material - the first is a piece listed as Zion UT, and it solves the unknown pieces I listed at the end of the last posting I made.
another Zion
Thousand Oaks CA
Last Chance Canyon (now off limits)
Torrey UT
Cuyama CA (again)
Tonopah NV
Hanksville UT (not sure if this is just agate, but filed with petrified wood)
Butte Valley NV (Again)
Hurricane Ridge UT
Monte Cristo Mountains NV
Saturday I bought the first box of this stuff, and i bought the rest today. I have heard a story of how one rockhounding family would drop off their mother in a specific area near Mule Canyon outside Barstow. She was there to do one thing: sift through the dirt for petrified palm tree rootlets. They then sold them to Greiger's in Pasadena (I know a few of you know this reference). I am thinking that this material might be the same stuff, but it's pure guesswork. Here is a closeup of one of the pieces.
And now for something completely different from the last batch of different stuff:
Looking at the piece, I though Cycad, but then I wasn't sure. The second picture shows the odd structural features, but it could be better. Ideas? Not labeled, but looks Utahish.
A few non-wood items:
Canadian Dino Bone:
Opalized Wood (guessing) Some has flash)
Crystals - .50 cents per pound (yeah - I grabbed handfuls for my classroom.)
And finally - Ms Kirk was involved in archeology, but I don't know in what capacity. What she did have is a significant collection of pre-columbian artifacts.
It made me sick to see them split up and sold. She had everything catalogued, but nobody could figure out where or how it was done, so all her work is being split
between dozens of people who have no idea where the material they bought came from.
When I saw the item below I thought twice about buying it, but finally I did ($75) when I was given permission to take all of Ms Kirks private files and papers, including her slides.
I am hoping to find some notation that will allow me pinpoint where it came from. The slides include dozens of images (labeled) of rock hounding sites in the 50's and 60's. I'm scanning them and will be posting them here soon.
Anyway - what i bought my wife:
Hope you made it through this post without falling asleep. thanks for looking
Lowell
I also bought a special something for my wife which got her interested in the sale as well and we went back today to find the rock at 50 cents a pound, so i bought another bushel load.
Here's the highlights starting with the petrified wood:
The stuff without ID tags:
Large piece not labeled but most solid/largest specimen I got.
Some pieces from near the Colorado River:
Love the detail preserved in them:
Usual stuff:
Gabbs
Sperry Wash, CA
Some rarer or more unusual material - the first is a piece listed as Zion UT, and it solves the unknown pieces I listed at the end of the last posting I made.
another Zion
Thousand Oaks CA
Last Chance Canyon (now off limits)
Torrey UT
Cuyama CA (again)
Tonopah NV
Hanksville UT (not sure if this is just agate, but filed with petrified wood)
Butte Valley NV (Again)
Hurricane Ridge UT
Monte Cristo Mountains NV
Saturday I bought the first box of this stuff, and i bought the rest today. I have heard a story of how one rockhounding family would drop off their mother in a specific area near Mule Canyon outside Barstow. She was there to do one thing: sift through the dirt for petrified palm tree rootlets. They then sold them to Greiger's in Pasadena (I know a few of you know this reference). I am thinking that this material might be the same stuff, but it's pure guesswork. Here is a closeup of one of the pieces.
And now for something completely different from the last batch of different stuff:
Looking at the piece, I though Cycad, but then I wasn't sure. The second picture shows the odd structural features, but it could be better. Ideas? Not labeled, but looks Utahish.
A few non-wood items:
Canadian Dino Bone:
Opalized Wood (guessing) Some has flash)
Crystals - .50 cents per pound (yeah - I grabbed handfuls for my classroom.)
And finally - Ms Kirk was involved in archeology, but I don't know in what capacity. What she did have is a significant collection of pre-columbian artifacts.
It made me sick to see them split up and sold. She had everything catalogued, but nobody could figure out where or how it was done, so all her work is being split
between dozens of people who have no idea where the material they bought came from.
When I saw the item below I thought twice about buying it, but finally I did ($75) when I was given permission to take all of Ms Kirks private files and papers, including her slides.
I am hoping to find some notation that will allow me pinpoint where it came from. The slides include dozens of images (labeled) of rock hounding sites in the 50's and 60's. I'm scanning them and will be posting them here soon.
Anyway - what i bought my wife:
Hope you made it through this post without falling asleep. thanks for looking
Lowell
