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Post by santabarbara on Mar 17, 2017 2:32:01 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2017 12:08:33 GMT -5
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Post by rockjunquie on Mar 17, 2017 12:18:30 GMT -5
Sorry, agates aren't my forte, but a couple seem pretty straight forward. #8 ochoco tube agate? #10 crazy lace with sagenite.
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Post by captbob on Mar 17, 2017 12:30:47 GMT -5
Sure are some sweet looking pieces there! Gonna take some guessing to name many of them.
#3 has a Confetti look to it, but an element of not quite as well.
#12 (2nd from last) sure looks like Rosetta at the lower right, but less so when you get in to the flame looking area and brownish matrix at the top.
#9 is absolutely a killer piece! My favorite of the lot for sure.
Scott, not sure you can conjure up Lowell by adding his name to the list!
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Post by Tommy on Mar 17, 2017 13:44:12 GMT -5
Wow! nice show. I've got nothing I can positively ID other than the crazylace that has been said.
Eighth photo down looks like limb cast moss - possibly Oregon
The last one has areas that look like palm root - and other areas that look nothing like palm root.
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Post by santabarbara on Mar 17, 2017 17:00:02 GMT -5
Thanks... hope anyone else who is a collector or just knowledgable lapidaries could chime in as well, thanks for the feedback. Most of these are larger rough, even though cracks in some of the faced sections, should make some great uncracked slabs after the first cut...
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Post by captbob on Mar 17, 2017 17:36:09 GMT -5
Tommy, didn't you just have some high quality Bloody Basin? #9 look similar to that to you? Looks kikda like what a rock baby from Bloody Basin & Wingate parents might look like.
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 17, 2017 19:11:50 GMT -5
#3 definitely Confetti Agate from Mexico #1 maybe some strange Nyssa, Organ Airport plume types but not typical #2 needs to be cut, maybe Luna from Mexico if it has more tubes when cut #4 can't remember the name but I think it's a sort of orbicular type out of Arizona #5 dunno #6,7 possibly Brown Springs Plume out of AZ #8 Keegan Rch Tube out of Oregon #9 My favorite, maybe Bloody Basin or Plumosa Mtn Plume out of AZ #10+11 both crazy lace variants #12 definitely Rosetta #13 dunno......Mel
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Post by captbob on Mar 17, 2017 19:23:52 GMT -5
Mel, any chance that #1 is Top Notch from the Cadys?
I have a bunch of Rosetta, hundred+ pounds and none have the brown. Have you seen it with that before?
Agree, #9 steals the show!!
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Post by Deleted on Mar 17, 2017 20:39:42 GMT -5
Mel, any chance that #1 is Top Notch from the Cadys? I have a bunch of Rosetta, hundred+ pounds and none have the brown. Have you seen it with that before? Agree, #9 steals the show!! I hadn't thought of top notch because it's so new. But once it's cut, that may very well be what it is. Hope to have my own sample soon. We spoke to folks with better directions. Although they weren't selling any of the siderite agate top notch stuff! ETA And Bob, you cannot fault me for trying to raise Lowell up! Lol
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Post by Sabre52 on Mar 17, 2017 22:20:00 GMT -5
Bob, most Rosetta is redder but as the market absorbs the more colorful stuff, I have seen some show up that has more of a brown color. On the there hand, it could be some form of similar travertine type material too. Those same patterns also often show up in nicer pieces of those fancy calcite travertines.
That number one is just a guess for me. Sometimes plume agate veins just don't show well defined plumes and instead just have the frothy , lacy look to them. I don't think it's Cadys Top notch but I've only seen it in a couple of pictures, never in person. Now that I look at the posted specimen more, I'm thinking #1 is Feather Ridge Pink Plume from near the Regency Rose claims on the OR/ID border.....Mel
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Post by santabarbara on Mar 18, 2017 1:02:02 GMT -5
really appreciate all the input! Thanks. The number one had " bull something plume" couldn't read the second word was rubbed off and 150.00 written on it, it was gotten from an estate sale from a buddy, as a lot of these were. I looked at "peach feather plume" and it looks real similar though. I have a bunch of top notch, my two friends go there frequently and have hundreds of lbs of that stuff, if anyone wants some i can make the contact for you to get some if you live in central CA. all these rock were gotten at 1.00 pound or .25c pound- they dont have time to sort and sell individually priced stuff. Got 4 pieces of dino bone each several pounds too. And some other really nice agates i know the id's of . Appreciate all the id's definitely helps- anyone else might know some of them, stoked to get some replies and feedback
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