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Post by rockjunquie on Mar 28, 2018 14:34:30 GMT -5
Hey, Tommy, do you remember this material? We decided it was Tiffany, but it is not typical tiffany. I found an old preform of it and just finished it. It's a big un. It smelled like tiffany and cabbed a lot like the softer parts of tiffany. If I had to guess, I'd think it was stabilized. What do you think? ruby in fuchsite nice OJ this should be some peruvian opal with matrix. - unless I got it mixed up with that BC ocean rock or whatever it is called. sorry for the reflections. This was from a little slabbette of some mystery agate. I really like it- very colorful with little bits of fortification and pyrite. Haven't cabbed in awhile. My neck and shoulders started getting to me, so I had to knock off. Tomorrow, 80 degrees! I'll be cabbing.
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Post by Drummond Island Rocks on Mar 28, 2018 14:41:14 GMT -5
The others are nice but they are overshadowed by that OJ.
Chuck
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Post by Tommy on Mar 28, 2018 14:50:02 GMT -5
Hey, Tommy, do you remember this material? We decided it was Tiffany, but it is not typical tiffany. I found an old preform of it and just finished it. It's a big un. It smelled like tiffany and cabbed a lot like the softer parts of tiffany. If I had to guess, I'd think it was stabilized. What do you think? I think it's definitely Tiffany. I have some that looks just like the material in the right side bottom portion - famous last words but I'll poke around and see if I can find my piece. Beautiful cabs as usual! I especially love the Peruvian Ocean Blue Picture Opal Rock Beautiful cabochon. Funny story - before I heard of Peruvian Blue opal and while I was still searching for some OPR, I negotiated and bought a very expensive piece of PBO at a gem show thinking I was buying a piece of the darkest blue OPR I had ever seen. The vendor was like "you know what that is right?" and of course I know everything so the actual name never came out. After I sold the single cab it yielded I encountered PBO and realized what I had done ... it was just one of those things you can't get back haha.
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Post by rockjunquie on Mar 28, 2018 15:14:05 GMT -5
Hey, Tommy , do you remember this material? We decided it was Tiffany, but it is not typical tiffany. I found an old preform of it and just finished it. It's a big un. It smelled like tiffany and cabbed a lot like the softer parts of tiffany. If I had to guess, I'd think it was stabilized. What do you think? I think it's definitely Tiffany. I have some that looks just like the material in the right side bottom portion - famous last words but I'll poke around and see if I can find my piece. Beautiful cabs as usual! I especially love the Peruvian Ocean Blue Picture Opal Rock Beautiful cabochon. Funny story - before I heard of Peruvian Blue opal and while I was still searching for some OPR, I negotiated and bought a very expensive piece of PBO at a gem show thinking I was buying a piece of the darkest blue OPR I had ever seen. The vendor was like "you know what that is right?" and of course I know everything so the actual name never came out. After I sold the single cab it yielded I encountered PBO and realized what I had done ... it was just one of those things you can't get back haha. DOH!!! I have a few stories like that, too. If I had known then what I know now..... Yeah, this cab looks MUCH more like tiffany than some of the others from the same slab. It was pretty soft though and that threw me.
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Post by MsAli on Mar 28, 2018 15:17:50 GMT -5
That OJ is spectacular
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Post by socalagatehound on Mar 28, 2018 16:39:24 GMT -5
Sweet cabs, Tela! The OJ is killer and the agate is fascinating. And that Tiffany is something special!
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Post by goatgrinder on Mar 28, 2018 17:14:21 GMT -5
Keep your Tiffany; gimme more of that mystery agate. I think I can see my initials cobbled in there.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Mar 28, 2018 22:21:50 GMT -5
Beautiful cabs, as always and even though you've got a purple stone in there to which I am partial, I have to go with the mystery agate as my very favorite in this batch. The fortifications and little druzy pockets make me happy just looking at it!
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Post by vegasjames on Mar 29, 2018 2:00:31 GMT -5
A lot of the Tiffany stone from Utah has a reputation for being friable (crumbles easily) so I would not be surprised if that had been stabilized.
Love the last one. If it were not for the pyrite I would have thought it was some of the rhyolite from Central Nevada. Some of it is heavily patterned like that.
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Post by accidentalrockhound on Mar 29, 2018 6:44:32 GMT -5
Wow that PO. Looks like a small capture of a water fall .
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