Tommy
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Post by Tommy on Aug 17, 2018 19:34:21 GMT -5
Well, 20 twenty to be exact... Start the show off with some Blue Biggensis    Magnesite marble  Mushroom Rhyolite  Coprolite from Wild Bill orrum . Well not FROM him, it's FROM a dinosaur... I hope...  Prudent Man  Morrisonite  Old collection Amethyst Sage - from back when it was still purple haha  Silver in Cobaltite  Needles Blue gem silica in matrix  Kaleidoscope jasper  Moctezuma agate 'floater'  Lahontan dendritic jasper - probably rhyolite. Double sided drilled.  Septarian Nodules    Three not-sure-ites.   Woodward ranch maybe?  |
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Post by taylor on Aug 17, 2018 19:48:29 GMT -5
As always, beautiful!!!
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Post by rockjunquie on Aug 17, 2018 20:12:43 GMT -5
YES! Biggs and Orrum poop, totally! Those are all beautiful, though. I haven't seen Biggs that nice in a long time. NICE!
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Post by woodman on Aug 17, 2018 20:30:10 GMT -5
Real nice Biggs!!
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Post by MsAli on Aug 17, 2018 20:33:58 GMT -5
Love your notsureites 🤣
There is something about the Moctezuma agate 'floater' that is so beautiful
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Post by socalagatehound on Aug 17, 2018 20:44:25 GMT -5
Very nice group!!! Lots of killer cabs but that second Biggs is way cool!!!
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Aug 17, 2018 21:10:10 GMT -5
Very nice collection! I love the Biggs, Morrisonite and that Needles Blue cab is outstanding!
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Post by Tommy on Aug 17, 2018 21:42:24 GMT -5
There is something about the Moctezuma agate 'floater' that is so beautiful Thanks - not sure if this will come across as negative or bragging - hopefully neither - but this 'floater' piece is the anticlimatic end of a series of beautiful cabs that came from a single nodule that I bought a year ago. It's bitter-sweet for me because the first few cabs that came off it were so freaking fantastic that I look at this one now and just kind of sigh... this is the end and now it's all gone haha. I think this was my favorite - it was also the first one.  It makes me think that I REALLY need to start holding a few of my favorite cabs back as specimens.... Nah!...  |
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Post by MsAli on Aug 17, 2018 22:06:19 GMT -5
There is something about the Moctezuma agate 'floater' that is so beautiful Thanks - not sure if this will come across as negative or bragging - hopefully neither - but this 'floater' piece is the anticlimatic end of a series of beautiful cabs that came from a single nodule that I bought a year ago. It's bitter-sweet for me because the first few cabs that came off it were so freaking fantastic that I look at this one now and just kind of sigh... this is the end and now it's all gone haha. I think this was my favorite - it was also the first one. It makes me think that I REALLY need to start holding a few of my favorite cabs back as specimens.... Nah!...  Holy bleep! Ok I can see why it was anticlimactic. It is still really pretty. Very soft and feminine. It's like a flower inside. You cant tell me you've never kept one for yourself. That would be a crime |
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Post by Tommy on Aug 17, 2018 22:17:15 GMT -5
You cant tell me you've never kept one for yourself. That would be a crime I've kept exactly one cabochon that I will never part with. Eva has kept about 30 and made me wrap them |
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Post by orrum on Aug 18, 2018 3:41:48 GMT -5
Awesome work Tommy but I don't think I sent you any coprolite?
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Post by vegasjames on Aug 18, 2018 4:52:43 GMT -5
Great. Love that third one down. Looks like a cartoonish landscape painting.
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Post by rockjunquie on Aug 18, 2018 6:22:40 GMT -5
I keep coming back to look at that Blue Biggs. That one double cab is so sweet. Very cool!
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Post by Tommy on Aug 18, 2018 9:45:36 GMT -5
Awesome work Tommy but I don't think I sent you any coprolite? You coprolite on me every day Bill! J/K - I bought it from you whilst you were manning your friend's booth at the Powwow. I guess technically it came from them and not from you but you definitely twisted my arm to purchase it  The light colored one basically crumbled - should have been stabilized I guess but I just went at it instead.  |
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Aug 18, 2018 11:01:38 GMT -5
There is something about the Moctezuma agate 'floater' that is so beautiful Thanks - not sure if this will come across as negative or bragging - hopefully neither - but this 'floater' piece is the anticlimatic end of a series of beautiful cabs that came from a single nodule that I bought a year ago. It's bitter-sweet for me because the first few cabs that came off it were so freaking fantastic that I look at this one now and just kind of sigh... this is the end and now it's all gone haha. I think this was my favorite - it was also the first one. It makes me think that I REALLY need to start holding a few of my favorite cabs back as specimens.... Nah!...  This may be the most unusual, beautiful cab I have ever seen! There is no way I could part with this if I cut it. I'd be making myself a pendant out of it. |
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Post by mgrets on Aug 18, 2018 16:11:14 GMT -5
You cant tell me you've never kept one for yourself. That would be a crime I've kept exactly one cabochon that I will never part with. Eva has kept about 30 and made me wrap them OK, so I have to ask: will you post a photo of the one and only? |
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Post by orrum on Aug 18, 2018 16:30:04 GMT -5
Oh yes now I remember Tommy! That was the coprolite everybody at Q was going crazy over!
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Post by victor1941 on Aug 18, 2018 16:49:44 GMT -5
Tommy, really like the floater and the blue Biggs.
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Post by kk on Aug 18, 2018 20:57:21 GMT -5
Way to many eye-candies to choose a favorite.
And yes, are we going to see the lineup of your keeper and the ones of your dearest?
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Post by Tommy on Aug 19, 2018 10:48:29 GMT -5
OK, so I have to ask: will you post a photo of the one and only? And yes, are we going to see the lineup of your keeper and the ones of your dearest? Well, taking and posting photos of my wife's booty bounty of wraps (and cabs waiting to be wrapped) presents significant challenges that would involve a way overdue 'honey-doo' list item - firing up the ultrasonic cleaner and cleaning all her pendants - so I'll politely save that for another day. The one and only cab I've kept was one of the first Montana agates I worked on. I've posted photos of it here on the forum from time to time and I don't have any recent photos so this original photo will have to suffice.  |
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