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Post by Garage Rocker on Dec 20, 2017 19:26:19 GMT -5
A look down fish Good eye. Dead ringer.
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jamesp
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Post by jamesp on Dec 20, 2017 19:37:49 GMT -5
A look down fish Good eye. Dead ringer. I am a member of "Save the Look Down" fish. They are dying all over the world from depression.
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Post by jamesp on Dec 20, 2017 19:41:39 GMT -5
jamesp , I think the guy I bought it from buys out abandoned storage lockers (ala Storage Wars), then resells the spoils at the swapmeet for sometimes not even pennies on the dollar. I've bought some stuff from him over the years, most not rock related at all. For the most part, people that do this have no idea on the rarity or value of rocks. Good for me! Two bucks for a 1.5 lb chunk of primo, old school crazy lace - Now that's one of the reasons I get up in the cold (at o'dark thirty, when I can be sleeping in on Sundays) and go to the swapmeet. Thrift stores and garage sales, too. Estate sales can be good, but only if the deceased didn't have children that were also addicted to rocks. In that case, they sometimes think they are worth more than they actually are. That polished big 'un is every bit as nice as when I received it - excepting the layer of dust patina on it, lol. It is also sitting next to the hollow cave-shaped coral, too. I look at them all regularly. Looking at them will increase the polish. I just polished a big red rock. It is so polished it slides to the other end of a flat kitchen table. I had to scratch it so a light breeze wouldn't blow it away.
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Post by jamesp on Dec 20, 2017 19:42:41 GMT -5
jamesp , I think the guy I bought it from buys out abandoned storage lockers (ala Storage Wars), then resells the spoils at the swapmeet for sometimes not even pennies on the dollar. I've bought some stuff from him over the years, most not rock related at all. For the most part, people that do this have no idea on the rarity or value of rocks. Good for me! Two bucks for a 1.5 lb chunk of primo, old school crazy lace - Now that's one of the reasons I get up in the cold (at o'dark thirty, when I can be sleeping in on Sundays) and go to the swapmeet. Thrift stores and garage sales, too. Estate sales can be good, but only if the deceased didn't have children that were also addicted to rocks. In that case, they sometimes think they are worth more than they actually are. That polished big 'un is every bit as nice as when I received it - excepting the layer of dust patina on it, lol. It is also sitting next to the hollow cave-shaped coral, too. I look at them all regularly. Estate sales and swap meets like that might get me out of bed. Nobody around here is into rocks. You'll only find clothes, a vacuum and maybe a waffle iron at a garage sale or swap meet here. Yea Jean, in land of rock estates.
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