Description: Mineral dealer Clive Quiet in his "rock room". Clive was my main contact in Tsumeb and between trips he would send me thousands of small dioptase specimens and specimens of other minerals. We used to run around together and visit the other miners to see what they had when they came off shift. Clive is wrapping up a specimen with toilet paper which he used to buy in big lots like five big boxes at a time. The toilet paper manufactures down in the Republic must have assumed that everyone in Tsumeb had the runs.

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