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Posted: Feb 23, 2013 14:37 Post subject: Tucson Show 2013 - The Westward Look |
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The Westward Look
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In the Westward Look everything seems to be so nice... |
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...but the life is not so easy, even in the Westward Look. Here we can see Tom Spann and one worker who is trying to fix one more of the large number of troubles that the rental Show cases had this year. Not power for the lights of this two ones... |
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...that's probably the reason why Bryan (at right) is dancing a kind of "Haka" before to tape the US mineral's collection of Kevin Brown. Joe Budd (at left) seems also to be ready to help in case the lights fall down... |
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...but finally the sunset arrives giving peace to everybody in the Westward Look.
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Posted: Feb 23, 2013 15:42 Post subject: Tucson Show 2013 - The Party! (1) |
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A little bit crowded, a little bit a social reunion, a little bit friendly, a little bit a great night. The Party! ;-)
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Tom (Spirifer) and his polish team helping in the entry (thanks Tom!) |
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One of the daughters of Rainer Bode, the publisher of the Mineralien Welt |
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and Jolyon Ralph from Mindat |
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Marshall Sussman and Mike Weise from Smithsonian |
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George Harlow from American Museum of Natural History at the center, seems to be looking for something (run away? ;-) |
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A French team, the curators of the Sorbonne and Histoire Naturelle Museums |
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Carl Francis former curator of the Harvard Museum of Natural History |
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in the middle of the crowd Jamie Newman of the American Museum of natural History and Mike Wise of the Smithsonian |
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The Callen's from the magazine MineralUp posing for the posterity ;-) |
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Bad photo but great people: Carl Francis, John Veevaert, Joan Kureczka and Jesse Fisher |
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The kindest people I know: Terry & Marie Huizing from Rock & Minerals magazine |
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Posted: Feb 23, 2013 17:27 Post subject: Tucson Show 2013 - The Party! (2) |
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An overview, with Jay Medici foreground |
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Some great collectors in this photo headed by Karl Warning. Tresa Foster, John Lucking and Rhys Foster. |
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Daniel Trinchillo and his lovely wife. |
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Anthony Kampf and George Harlow seems to be judging the Huizings and me... ;-) |
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And the great expert (and better fellow) Alfredo Petrov |
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Vicente, this round's on me! |
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With the Grays from the Tellus Science Museum in Cartersville, Georgia |
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And Alan Hart from NHM in London joins the fun |
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You look great in this photo Gail. Vic Rzonca seems to feel it ;-) |
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Posted: Feb 23, 2013 18:12 Post subject: Tucson Show 2013 - The Party! and (3) |
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Tom Spann with Rudolph Watzl |
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With Robert Brandstetter and Oliver Konczer both from Austria and authors of several articles including the column about Tucson Show in the german magazine Lapis |
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Alan Hart with Raquel Alonso-Perez current curator of the Harvard Mineralogical and Geological Museum. BTW she is from Spain... |
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And Gail with another new curator, also a women, Eloïse Gaillou from the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles |
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Eloïse Gaillou enjoying the new technologies... |
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so now is the time for the "flirt" of Gail and Jean Claude Bouillard from the Sorbonne Museum, Paris |
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Tom trying to close the party (without success ;-) |
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Summing: what a party!!!
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Posted: Feb 24, 2013 13:06 Post subject: Tucson Show 2013 - The Main Show (1) |
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And the time pass and the end of the Show arrives. Is the time of the Main Show (Tucson Convention Center)
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The Main Show is not only a business Show but mostly a kind of social event where all kinds of people walk, keep open their eyes and also they buy... |
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...or wake up! (thanks Isaias-IC Minerals ;-) |
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,,, and where you can also let your imagination and imagine that one movie takes place there ... |
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..."Django Unchained"! ;-)
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Posted: Feb 24, 2013 14:05 Post subject: Tucson Show 2013 - The Main Show (and 2) |
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But nevertheless the most important in the Main Show are, undoubtedly, the display cases...
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...this other case of Topazes with Wayne Leicht (Kristalle) "through the glass" ;-) |
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Every one has his personal preferences and for good or for bad, my ten favorites Fluorites among the hundreds displayed in this Tucson Fluorite's year are (without order preference) the 10 below.
Starting with this superb green, large, one from St. Peter's Mine, Allenhead, UK from the Sir Arthur Russell Collection, currently hosted in the London Natural History Museum... |
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...and of course the "poster" of the year, this extraordinary example of the highest quality of the Illinois Fluorites. This Fluorite is owned by Ross Lillie, congratulations Ross! |
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As usual, with these marvels were also some other remarkable specimens like this large rose Quartz from a private collection that Jim Walker and Mary Fong from Heritage Auctions have been achieved recently... |
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Posted: Feb 24, 2013 17:31 Post subject: Tucson Show 2013 - My final comments |
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And finally here's is my usual summary of what I believe has been the Tucson Show 2013.
One of the main novelties of Tucson this year has been the absence of news ;-) If in the past the number of new finds was decreasing, their absence in this Tucson has been almost total, just some minor things like the Jacobsites from the N'Chwaning III, the perhaps? small Pyromorphites with Wulfenite and Azurite from Morocco, the Wulfenites on Mottramite-Descloizite and the series-Duftite-Conichalcite-Austinite both from Ojuela Mine, the silver sulfides from the Oaxaca area, the new works in Santa Eulalia with Rhodocrosites and Smithsonites ... and the vast quantity (and quality) of the material from the mines of Huanggang, China... and as far as I know not much more. Just persistent rumors about new and large Wurtzites from Arusha, Tanzania, but as a collector of reference told to me in the Main Show, it seems that the number of best specimens sold "under the table" is increasing so if they were in Tucson, I did not see them.
Due the lack of news, much has been said about the feeling that, at last, the decline of the “crazy prices” with success in sales has begun. I mean, even we continue to see many prices with 5 or 6 zeros, this year several elite collectors said to the sellers that the price did not correspond much to the quality of the piece: "You're crazy" (personal communication) , allowing one to hope to soon reach a "normalization" rather than continuing the race in which it appears that the value of the piece given is its price, not its quality, so that newcomers to the hobby could believe that the best specimens were those with more zeros ... I would say that many of the collectors who have arrived in recent years to this hobby have learned a lot in a short time and hopefully things can go back to a kind of rationality, rationality that sometime before seems to have been lost.
The hobby is solid, there are many collectors who are happy with their collections and will continue with them enthusiastically, which in my opinion guarantees a good future for the hobby. What may slowly disappear are those pieces with a real value of about two or three zeros priced in five or six zeros.
I agree that exceptional pieces should cost big money, but what does not seem right is that some mediocrities could cost fortunes to satisfy “snob” collectors whose concept of "good" is simply that expensive = good.
With this last post I hope I compensate my limited participation in this thread during the fair due to a multitude of small problems that have been burdening me throughout the show. Again, thank you very much to Valere Berlage, Matt Zukowski, Jean Sendero... for their fine contributions throughout the Show, I hope that many more join this thread to provide their thoughts on this thread. Even if only short texts, all contributions add up to create a much more complete picture of what is and what means the "Tucson madness"
Other recommended threads for more information about Tucson 2013:
- The very broad, comprehensive and well done Gail Spann’s thread: 2013 Tucson Show Adventure ~ Gail Spann Style.
- The infos published by Jolyon in Mindat News
- The stories of the pioneer in this kind of chronicles, John Veevaert
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Bye, bye Tucson, the dinosaur can't bear her grief, but we will come back the next year! ;-) |
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Posted: Feb 25, 2013 06:37 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Some novelties that our fearless leader missed.
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Chabazite with scolecite Pune (Poona) India the largest piece is 4.5 cm |
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Posted: Feb 25, 2013 06:45 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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More novelties missed by Jordi.
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Chabazite with stilbite road cut at Bavdhan, near Pune, India 8.5 cm across Mark Mauthner photo |
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Posted: Feb 25, 2013 07:55 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Thank you for dreaming throughout Tucson Show.
Thank you for the various comments and also for the Jordi’s conclusion.
Roger.
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Posted: Feb 26, 2013 06:11 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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I am back in Alaska and have finally got to the point where i can put more picts up.
First up are the MAD and HAMS cases (Texas seems like a great place to be if you are a mineral enthusiast).
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Posted: Feb 26, 2013 06:22 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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First is another pict of the large fluorite that came out of the Rogerly and then picts of some interesting specimens from the Collectors Edge booth.
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Posted: Feb 26, 2013 06:34 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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The Proctor cases.
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Posted: Feb 26, 2013 06:43 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Posted: Feb 26, 2013 07:43 Post subject: Re: Tucson Show 2013 |
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Thanks for the photos Matt. Stunning specimens!
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