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Post by traveler on Jan 12, 2010 16:41:09 GMT -5
I got the idea from LEADHAND and was wondering how we all display our finds. We've all come along way from just having rocks all over the house and I'd like to share my little corner with all of you. Hope you like it. Tom
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Post by scott on Jan 12, 2010 16:53:36 GMT -5
Ooh, very nice. Very nice cabs too.
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Post by writerman2255 on Jan 12, 2010 19:08:54 GMT -5
I particularly like the green and silver chained piece draped over the white rock. Nice! Love and Light, Tom.
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Post by morishidol on Jan 13, 2010 0:55:17 GMT -5
Very nice,,looks like you will need to set up another one for all the stuff you will find this coming year!!!
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Post by di66er on Jan 14, 2010 12:57:02 GMT -5
What lives in the jars on the top shelf? Nice display!
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Post by traveler on Jan 14, 2010 17:37:58 GMT -5
Cool, let me answer these questions. First, this is the size of my display. When I find something new, I have to replace something. I do have another cabinet in the office that holds the cabbing rough and "extras". The Green wrapped stone is rainforest jasper in sterling. One of my first wrapps. It is sitting on a piece of diamond hill matrix with a nice amethyst that was given to us by Bryan for helping when he was getting a huge skeletal piece out of the pit. The jars....they are mostly cabbing rough from salted mines. The better three are rose quartz from Hogg, Aqua beryl from Hogg and Kyanite from Graves.
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Post by postal on Jan 14, 2010 19:23:26 GMT -5
No Hogg Rose quartz or Beryl cabs? ??
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Post by lizziebird on Jan 14, 2010 19:34:16 GMT -5
Very nice. Most of my rocks live in boxes on a shelf. I have a few random pieces in front of my computer monitor and an assortment of about 10 small favorites in my kitchen window where I can see them every day. Some day, I would like to have an actual display but at this moment, there's just no room for any extra stuff. Oh, well.
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Post by traveler on Jan 15, 2010 18:15:36 GMT -5
Pete, There is a few in there from the Hogg. I even posted them last year when I first meyt you there (I wasn't too active and was just another hound). There is even a faceted piece from SASKROCK that is about 150ct made on his ingenious hame made faceter. The pictures don't show enough detail. I will try and re-post with a hogg-highlight. I've only dug at a few magma digging areas and will post some specific pix.
I would also like to see whay you'all have for a home display
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Post by saskrock on Jan 16, 2010 11:56:23 GMT -5
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Post by traveler on Jan 19, 2010 17:51:18 GMT -5
Looks great Scott. I still have that facet rose quartz in my collection.
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Post by scottr on Jan 22, 2010 14:20:46 GMT -5
Are those copper sulfate crystals in your pics? Just started growing a bunch last night. Not much collecting here in WI this time of year
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Post by saskrock on Jan 25, 2010 0:12:38 GMT -5
You got it. My son and I grew them one winter. Home made but really pretty.
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Post by xtldggr on Jan 29, 2010 16:25:31 GMT -5
Traveler I have enjoyed this thread. I was hoping more people would participate, perhaps we can lure some folks to post some of their collections and how they have them displayed. The following photos are of the specimens I have in my quartz cabinet Thanks for looking xtldggr Quartz from various US locales Amethyst From the US with exception of one Las Vigas specimen Herkimer Diamonds Herkimer and Fulton counties NY Arkansas Qtz, Mt. Ida Arkansas
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Post by scottr on Jan 29, 2010 17:25:22 GMT -5
very nice!
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Post by hydrogeologist on Jan 29, 2010 18:14:49 GMT -5
Nice displays, all. I just got a tour of the "rock room" of a well-known Maryland collector last night and would have loved to have taken some pictures. He had a Maryland collection that absolutely blew me away, including an old Philadelphia Museum of Sciences Collection with some 100+ year old MD specimens. I also saw the best Franklin/Sterling Hill crystal specimens I've ever seen. The coolest part of the collection in my opinion, though, was his Classic Eastern Locales cases. All specimens collected from classic mines in the original 13 colonies. It was awesome. The Massachussetts beryls he had were among the best I've ever seen from anywhere in the U.S.
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Post by earthnhands on Jan 29, 2010 21:02:30 GMT -5
The Maryland collection sound unbelievable! Really interesting idea with the "13 Colonies Collection".
xtldigger, is that a sceptor in the middle and 2nd from back in the amethyst? Where is that from? Where is the smoky in back left from?! And the one that looks green or blue with amethyst (right, second from back), what is that!? Your collection is awesome!!!! These are great ideas for displays. Thanks for showing. Rebecca
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Post by arappaho on Feb 1, 2010 13:29:49 GMT -5
Yes, thanks for the pics all. I am very envious of the organization and cleanliness of your displays. Joe
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Post by xtldggr on Feb 1, 2010 14:35:04 GMT -5
Here are a few more photos of various specimens in my den, the first photo is of some of my diamond Hill collecetion. The second photo is of the take from one carefully deconstructed boulder at JXR last May, when terry and his crew were there; these specimens all came from the same 5'x4' x3' boulder. Thanks for looking xtldggr
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Post by saskrock on Feb 6, 2010 17:36:33 GMT -5
Some great specimines xtldggr. Hopefully some more people post their collections for us to see.
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Post by xtldggr on Feb 6, 2010 18:44:24 GMT -5
Thanks Sas!! Hey Rockhounds how bout lets see some more home displays!! xtldggr
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Post by scottr on Feb 6, 2010 22:14:36 GMT -5
WI calcite Attachments:
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Post by scottr on Feb 6, 2010 22:15:58 GMT -5
phantom calcite Attachments:
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Post by scottr on Feb 6, 2010 22:20:00 GMT -5
WI marcasite Attachments:
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Post by baehron on Feb 7, 2010 12:58:19 GMT -5
Hey xtldggr, great use of 4x4's for height separation for display. Also, great displays to all of you. Kenn
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Post by baehron on Feb 7, 2010 14:16:18 GMT -5
Everybody's displays so far have been spectacular, all unique with nature's beauty and variation well highlighted. Here is mine as it is on this date, (we all know how they grow and change:) The first is the overall view. This one highlights artifacts or what I think are artifacts. (I learn new things everyday) This one mostly Diamond Hill stuff, Of course the pyrite cubes from Glendon Some varied petrified woods A few different things Thanks for looking, keep posting your collections. Kenn
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Post by stevebarr on Feb 15, 2010 14:17:13 GMT -5
A few years ago, I got kind of tired of filing smaller specimens away in a drawer and never getting to look at them. So, I decided to keep them out on display for people to see. Whenever I go to a thrift shop, I always look for inexpensive little wooden "treasure" chests that I can put the smaller gems in. I fill the chests almost to the top with beach sand, which helps hold the specimens in place. Then, every time I get my hands on something that's not real big, it goes into one of the chests. This one is under an antique lamp in my living room, but I have several others scattered around the cabin. It's surrounded by specimens from Walker Creek, Arkansas, an agate John Deney polished and gave to me and a large cluster of fluorite from the old Minerva Mine in Illinois. (The fluorite cubes are covered with a combination of druse and calcite). On the floor next to the desk these are on, I have a large cluster of smokies from Diamond Hill that's sitting in the top of an old barrel Geode Pat gave to me a while back. (Photos by Baehron)
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Post by earthnhands on Feb 15, 2010 14:42:18 GMT -5
Thanks Steve, that is very pretty. I have actually been dusting my displays in order to take pics. You have some really beautiful specimens there. Is that a fluorite cube in the chest in the upper right (magenta purple)? That is a killer blue fluorite specimen from Illinois!!! Looks very delicate with that calcite on it. How did you come by that? Thanks for sharing. Rebecca
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Post by stevebarr on Feb 15, 2010 15:17:58 GMT -5
Good eye, Rebecca….yes, that is a fluorite cube from Kentucky in the upper right hand corner.
And you know how I got that cluster of blue and yellow fluorite covered with druse and calcite…you were there when I swapped and bargained for it. But, for those who weren't with us.....
A few years ago, Romare and I went out to Kentucky to see if we thought the Eureka Mine would be a worthwhile place to schedule a club dig (which it did turn out to be!). While we were there, we took the ferry over into southern Illinois and began asking locals if they knew anywhere else that we could collect specimens.
A cashier at a convenience store told me that she didn't know anywhere that we'd be able to dig, but she and her mother had some fluorite they wanted to sell. It turned out that her father was a miner for most of his life. They had a bunch of the "lunchbox specimens" he had collected for sale, and invited Mark and I to come see them.
On that first visit, I didn't get anything from them. But, on a subsequent trip to Kentucky I went back to see them with a few friends. We haggled a bit. I got a generous discount when I offered to swap them two small opals that Rick gave me, and I ended up leaving with a really nice piece to add to my collection.
The Minerva Mine has been closed for a long time. Anything you can get from that site is worth adding to your collection. So, even though Mom and Dad said never to do it, sometimes it does pay to talk to strangers!
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Post by geodepat on Feb 15, 2010 21:08:43 GMT -5
Steve, you made good use of that old whiskey barrel. Did you ever make a display out of that antique wagon I gave you? I too have been trying to tidy up my displays so I can take some new pictures. It just may take a little time. Have some new ideas and have to impliment them.
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