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Post by rmf on Apr 27, 2022 1:56:05 GMT -5
Looks like you made a great buy!
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Post by fernwood on Apr 27, 2022 3:16:15 GMT -5
I love finds like this.
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Post by rockjunquie on Apr 27, 2022 5:15:20 GMT -5
Hot Diggity! That's a real nice find! My money is on the "Bisbee" being Bisbee. Whoa!
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Post by MsAli on Apr 27, 2022 6:04:27 GMT -5
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Post by MsAli on Apr 27, 2022 6:08:51 GMT -5
This stuff was in a bag and appears to have been tumbled and stabilized. Is turquoise even tumbled? I'll take a piece of it to the wheel tonight
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Post by fernwood on Apr 27, 2022 7:33:25 GMT -5
This stuff was in a bag and appears to have been tumbled and stabilized. Is turquoise even tumbled? I'll take a piece of it to the wheel tonight I have carefully tumbled Turquoise in the past. Am hoping that this is real Turquoise.
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Post by MsAli on Apr 27, 2022 7:44:18 GMT -5
Not holding my breath. It scratches pretty easily with a dental pick. We will cut a piece in half and find out
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Post by rockjunquie on Apr 27, 2022 8:14:46 GMT -5
This stuff was in a bag and appears to have been tumbled and stabilized. Is turquoise even tumbled? I'll take a piece of it to the wheel tonight
Those actually look dyed, but many of the others don't.
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hummingbirdstones2
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Post by hummingbirdstones2 on Apr 27, 2022 8:53:18 GMT -5
Uh-Oh. Last turquoise photo (in hand) has a piece on lower right that appears to be "fading" on the edge. Good luck on that.
I've always liked the turquoise with the black spiderweb lines in it better anyway.
That was a great buy.
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Post by MsAli on Apr 27, 2022 8:53:52 GMT -5
A few of the others are backed. They were in a drawer marked MINE keep out! Which is lapidary talk for this is the good stuff 😅
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Post by Tommy on Apr 27, 2022 9:22:43 GMT -5
About 1/4" enought to get a decent cab or two Oh my ... I've seen and had some lucky (and under-priced) surprise box finds where one or two items could end up paying for the whole lot, but with this I said it like five times when I was looking at your photos originally. Congratulations
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Post by Tommy on Apr 27, 2022 9:28:54 GMT -5
This stuff was in a bag and appears to have been tumbled and stabilized. Is turquoise even tumbled? I'll take a piece of it to the wheel tonight Yeah this is the batch I said yesterday might be died howelite and now seeing the edge that Vince pointed out I'm certain of it. STILL!!! We can't let this one item detract from the fantasticalness of your finds. I am no turquoise expert but I do think the rest of it is authentic and beautiful.
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Post by Rockoonz on Apr 27, 2022 10:03:21 GMT -5
Great score, congrats. I don't think I can add to what was said about the haul.
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Post by hummingbirdstones on Apr 27, 2022 10:30:55 GMT -5
Uh-Oh. Last turquoise photo (in hand) has a piece on lower right that appears to be "fading" on the edge. Good luck on that.
I've always liked the turquoise with the black spiderweb lines in it better anyway.
That was a great buy.
Truth. I'll be bummed if they're dyed, but all the other goodies make up for it big time.
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Post by MsAli on Apr 27, 2022 11:38:35 GMT -5
Im very please with it! And!, there are maybe 20 eggs that may need rescuing from the next auction
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hummingbirdstones2
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Post by hummingbirdstones2 on Apr 27, 2022 21:27:24 GMT -5
Go for it - you're probably ahead of the game now, for sure. Our local auctioneer never has anything like that anymore.
We got one lot several years ago that had some meteorite material in it. It wasn't a cool nickel-iron one, but we were still stoked when we got it ID'd.
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lparsons
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Post by lparsons on Apr 27, 2022 22:35:09 GMT -5
Wowwww! You hit the mother lode! 🤗🤗🤗
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hummingbirdstones2
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Post by hummingbirdstones2 on May 15, 2022 10:32:10 GMT -5
Hey there MsAli. Was looking for something else and stumbled across an older turquoise thread you might like to see.
Hope your elbow is feeling at least a bit better now, but still thought you'd like seeing this thread.
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Post by CLErocks on May 15, 2022 10:44:44 GMT -5
I see this is an older post…. Right before I made it back to the forum. But WOW! That is some amazing loot you scored, thanks for sharing.
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Post by MsAli on May 15, 2022 19:17:49 GMT -5
Hey there MsAli . Was looking for something else and stumbled across an older turquoise thread you might like to see.
Hope your elbow is feeling at least a bit better now, but still thought you'd like seeing this thread.
Thank you so much for sharing this! I have not even had an opportunity to play with any of the stuff yet
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