Post by elementary on Sept 21, 2013 23:08:27 GMT -5
Estate sales are for me a bittersweet event as I know they are generally run by a family who has lost a cherished member.
I always try to speak to the people and find out more about the rockhound, especially if the person used to be a member of our club.
Anyway, got word yesterday of a sale in Fillmore Ca (on Grand Street and is on tomorrow as well, I believe) and headed out with my daughter to see what was there.
Arrived and found a couple friends already rummaging around (and knowing them, fearful of all the good stuff being found already - but that was not the case.)
We hunted though 20 or so boxes of material and maybe a dozen barrels. A lot of the material was relatively local - Howlite, Kokoweef (man how do you spell that word?) cavern stalagtites, Hauser Geodes, a barrel and box of Siam Siding Chapite (LOTS OF IT), a barrel of sheen obsidian, Paul Bunyan, etc.
But there was some special material as well.
Here's my take - 140 pounds. $1 a pound. Lots of stuff for the kids.
The Haul:
Carnelian
Texas Springs Limb Casts
Assorted T eggs
Las Choyas, Lead Pipe Springs, Zacatecas, and one I can't ID -
Unknown....
Misc cutting Material - Mosses, Plume, etc.
Some samples:
(Big Diggin's?)
Some slabs - don't know the material offhand....or off any other part of my body....
(got more, but didn't want to go through them all)
And Help!
Not nodular but seam material that widens out at times. Not sure the origin.
Got a shoebox of this stuff...
Thanks for looking!
Lowell
I always try to speak to the people and find out more about the rockhound, especially if the person used to be a member of our club.
Anyway, got word yesterday of a sale in Fillmore Ca (on Grand Street and is on tomorrow as well, I believe) and headed out with my daughter to see what was there.
Arrived and found a couple friends already rummaging around (and knowing them, fearful of all the good stuff being found already - but that was not the case.)
We hunted though 20 or so boxes of material and maybe a dozen barrels. A lot of the material was relatively local - Howlite, Kokoweef (man how do you spell that word?) cavern stalagtites, Hauser Geodes, a barrel and box of Siam Siding Chapite (LOTS OF IT), a barrel of sheen obsidian, Paul Bunyan, etc.
But there was some special material as well.
Here's my take - 140 pounds. $1 a pound. Lots of stuff for the kids.
The Haul:
Carnelian
Texas Springs Limb Casts
Assorted T eggs
Las Choyas, Lead Pipe Springs, Zacatecas, and one I can't ID -
Unknown....
Misc cutting Material - Mosses, Plume, etc.
Some samples:
(Big Diggin's?)
Some slabs - don't know the material offhand....or off any other part of my body....
(got more, but didn't want to go through them all)
And Help!
Not nodular but seam material that widens out at times. Not sure the origin.
Got a shoebox of this stuff...
Thanks for looking!
Lowell
