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Gail
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 Posted: Mar 10, 2012 11:31 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin... |
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I know collectors who never go to shows, but buy discreetly and keep under the radar. I tell them that a great deal of the fun, the knowledge learned, is from the people who frequent the mineral world events.
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Gail
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| Posted: Mar 10, 2012 11:35 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin... |
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Gail
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| Posted: Mar 10, 2012 11:44 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin... |
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| April and her grandaughter. |
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Gail
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| Posted: Mar 10, 2012 18:05 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin... |
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| Dinner out with friends. Here is a NON mineral friend, Richard Mouer, who is a cycling planner. He was in town and I managed to talk both minerals AND cycling. |
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Gail
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| Posted: Mar 10, 2012 18:11 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin... |
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Gail
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| Posted: Mar 10, 2012 18:18 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin... |
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| Here's Rosemary Roberts, someone I have become quite fond of. |
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Gail
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| Posted: Mar 10, 2012 18:23 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin... |
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| Some great bargains are found here. |
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Gail
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| Posted: Mar 10, 2012 18:41 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin... |
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Gail
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| Posted: Mar 10, 2012 18:46 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin... |
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Gail
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| Posted: Mar 10, 2012 18:52 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin... |
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Gail
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| Posted: Mar 10, 2012 18:59 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin... |
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| Had a nice chat with these two ladies about what entices them, or doesn't entice them, into a mineral dealers room. It was fun. |
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Gail
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| Posted: Mar 10, 2012 19:04 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin... |
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Gail
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| Posted: Mar 11, 2012 10:09 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin... |
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| Joe Dorris showing us one of his exquisite pieces. |
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Gail
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| Posted: Mar 11, 2012 10:19 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin... |
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| Posted: Mar 11, 2012 10:26 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin... |
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Gail
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| Posted: Mar 11, 2012 10:33 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin... |
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| Posted: Mar 11, 2012 10:40 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin... |
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| Penny Williamson has two watches. Australian and USA time! |
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| Posted: Mar 11, 2012 11:48 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin... |
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Amazing pictures of the amazonite specimens from the new pocket, wow!
And a very funny slogan of John Cornish on his poster: "No One Said It'd Be Easy" ;-)
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Gail
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| Posted: Mar 11, 2012 12:48 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin... |
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Gail
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| Posted: Mar 11, 2012 13:00 Post subject: Re: Gail Spann's Tucson Show Report, 2012. Let the fun begin... |
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