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Post by 1dave on Mar 12, 2021 11:03:31 GMT -5
1dave your last several posts got me twitterpated. Hope you're proud of yourself. You have to show me those next time I stop by! I haven't seen the gift for several years. Someone may have borrowed them for show and tell. The rest are photos I collected from the Kid over the years. I do still have a few I collected from my last trip to Deming. I'll give you a few. Here are some more.
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Post by 1dave on Mar 12, 2021 11:33:54 GMT -5
I think I could find a spot in my cabinet for those. Just to repeat what I have said a couple times before, the Geode Kid's collection is in the Deming Museum. If you are ever passing through, it's a mandatory stop. Warning - be prepared for visual overload!!! I agree! forum.rocktumblinghobby.com/post/925200/threadThe Deming Museum:
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Post by RWA3006 on Mar 12, 2021 11:44:56 GMT -5
Exquisite.
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Post by 1dave on Mar 13, 2021 17:31:36 GMT -5
1dave your last several posts got me twitterpated. Hope you're proud of yourself. You have to show me those next time I stop by! I haven't seen the gift for several years. Someone may have borrowed them for show and tell. The rest are photos I collected from the Kid over the years. NOTE: I found them and brought them into the living room.
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Post by 1dave on Mar 13, 2021 18:57:42 GMT -5
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Post by RWA3006 on Mar 13, 2021 20:26:48 GMT -5
Those are amazingly beautiful.
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Post by miket on Mar 13, 2021 20:37:52 GMT -5
Not yet, 1dave ... I think I need to see more...
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Post by Brian on Mar 13, 2021 20:43:11 GMT -5
1dave , do you have any idea of the number of those that were cut to find such spectacular specimens if they were self-collected? I could just imagine someone cutting through thousands of them before gathering so many impressive ones. Or were they acquired from others who had collected them originally?
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Post by 1dave on Mar 13, 2021 23:53:43 GMT -5
1dave , do you have any idea of the number of those that were cut to find such spectacular specimens if they were self-collected? I could just imagine someone cutting through thousands of them before gathering so many impressive ones. Or were they acquired from others who had collected them originally? I think he collected, cut, and polished them all himself. You could buy them from his shop, or go to the mine and dig them for half the take. BUT he loved digging them himself and he was a digging fiend. He liked to dig them out individually and use a black marker on them to keep track how they were oriented to make the best possible cut. During his lifetime he personally cur and polished thousands of them. At several locations (one on the road to Wiley's Well) He set up 2 55 gallon barrels with 2X4 cross bars topped with five nailed down wooden soft drink crates that originally held 24 twelve ounce bottles eacj, but now were filled with thundereggs, each labeled for their location and price of fifty cents to a dollar fifty per pound. Sitting on the south barrel was an old kitchen scale that weighed amounts up to 25 pounds. “NOT LEGAL FOR TRADE” was printed on the rusty dial face. There was a slot cut in the barrel top about the right size to slip in a dollar bill and a little wider than a coin, with a sign saying “Pay Here” painted on the barrel top. Two-by-fours held up three one-by-sixes. The top board proclaimed “THUNDEREGGS,” the second “HONOR SYSTEM,” and the bottom “ROCK SHOP.” In the boxes were thundereggs labeled to be from the Oregon Priday Blue Beds, Lawson’s Pony Butte mine, Whistler Springs, Lucky Strike, Succor Kreek, Quinn River Indian deposit, Blue Ridge mine, Buchanan deposits, McDermitt Morrisonite jasper, and a few from the nearby Potato Patch. Every so often he would drive by, dig under the barrel to collect the money and refill the crates. - That was the Kid!
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Post by 1dave on Mar 14, 2021 0:02:43 GMT -5
Not yet, 1dave ... I think I need to see more... Who am I to deprive you?
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Post by stephan on Mar 14, 2021 0:11:32 GMT -5
Thanks for posting these 1dave . Baker eggs are amazing. I have two. I wish I had more. The stalactite eggs blow my mind.
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Post by stephan on Mar 14, 2021 0:15:42 GMT -5
Not yet, 1dave ... I think I need to see more... Who am I to deprive you? pink stalactites and brecciated matrix?
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Post by miket on Mar 14, 2021 7:10:26 GMT -5
Amazing, thanks for posting these!
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Post by 1dave on Mar 14, 2021 7:14:05 GMT -5
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Post by miket on Mar 14, 2021 7:19:27 GMT -5
Again, truly amazing- works of art! I wonder how many people have never seen these or don't even know they exist? I never did until I got into all of this rock business...
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Post by Brian on Mar 14, 2021 7:54:47 GMT -5
1dave , do you have any idea of the number of those that were cut to find such spectacular specimens if they were self-collected? I could just imagine someone cutting through thousands of them before gathering so many impressive ones. Or were they acquired from others who had collected them originally? I think he collected, cut, and polished them all himself. You could buy them from his shop, or go to the mine and dig them for half the take. BUT he loved digging them himself and he was a digging fiend. He liked to dig them out individually and use a black marker on them to keep track how they were oriented to make the best possible cut. During his lifetime he personally cur and polished thousands of them. At several locations (one on the road to Wiley's Well) He set up 2 55 gallon barrels with 2X4 cross bars topped with five nailed down wooden soft drink crates that originally held 24 twelve ounce bottles eacj, but now were filled with thundereggs, each labeled for their location and price of fifty cents to a dollar fifty per pound. Sitting on the south barrel was an old kitchen scale that weighed amounts up to 25 pounds. “NOT LEGAL FOR TRADE” was printed on the rusty dial face. There was a slot cut in the barrel top about the right size to slip in a dollar bill and a little wider than a coin, with a sign saying “Pay Here” painted on the barrel top. Two-by-fours held up three one-by-sixes. The top board proclaimed “THUNDEREGGS,” the second “HONOR SYSTEM,” and the bottom “ROCK SHOP.” In the boxes were thundereggs labeled to be from the Oregon Priday Blue Beds, Lawson’s Pony Butte mine, Whistler Springs, Lucky Strike, Succor Kreek, Quinn River Indian deposit, Blue Ridge mine, Buchanan deposits, McDermitt Morrisonite jasper, and a few from the nearby Potato Patch. Every so often he would drive by, dig under the barrel to collect the money and refill the crates. - That was the Kid! Thanks for the background story, 1dave! The Kid sounds like a fascinating character and I truly appreciate his passion and, even more, the fact that he shared it so well with others.
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Post by 1dave on Mar 14, 2021 8:37:24 GMT -5
It is still Thursday isn't it? Hmmm. I've misplaced photo 31 of 51. I hope you are copying these for your files. On this next one notice the attached tiny thundereggs around the edges.
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Post by Fossilman on Mar 14, 2021 9:36:20 GMT -5
Always liked Bakers, but the prices are way over my head!
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Post by RWA3006 on Mar 14, 2021 10:53:42 GMT -5
1dave thanks for your contributions to this thread!
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Post by 1dave on Mar 14, 2021 11:37:28 GMT -5
1dave thanks for your contributions to this thread! Thank the Kid. One of the things he taught me was to look for the differences from each area. Mexican coconuts have smooth rounded interiors because of all the calcium in that soil. Richardson Ranch Blue Beds tend to form square box shaped interiors because of ?? Those he first found as a kid in California had a lot of markacite in them. others had mercury. There is a lifetime of learning in his museum collection.
WHY are the attached eggs so different? Something before they moved into that neighborhood?
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