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[Dale Hallmark]

I remember flipping through LP's. I also remember working a deal with the Jukebox dealer for all his 45's as he replaced them. Wish I still had them.
Dale

[Peter Megaw]

I'm still a vinyl junkie...the squirrel gene manifests itself in many ways!

[marco campos-venuti]

Peter you are a crack!! I never found so much information about Crazy Lace in years of investigation, thank you very much.
I just want to add a picture of a specimen of a quite recent material called Sangria Jasper, that is found together with the Crazy Lace. It is a nice brecciated jasper mixed with banded agate. A real multiphase multisilica multibed event.

Dale, I was a purist of minerals and crystals some 15 years ago, when I met a guy in Quartzsite called Pat McMahan (or the sagenite man).
He has a page where he shows his passion for sagenite, plume, moss and other kind of agates with inclusions.
https://www.agateswithinclusions.com/
(Link normalized by FMF)
At that moment I realized that polishing an agate does not change it, but allows one to look inside the stone. This is the topic of collecting: look inside stones. Now I mix together crystals and polished slabs in my collection, and I guarantee you that if you start to buy some agates, you will find colors, oddities and a lot of mineralogy.

[Dale Hallmark]

Another very nice example.

I'm not really a purist in that I restrict myself to classic minerals and crystals. I like rocks too and actually have very few mineral samples with obvious crystal faces. What I have had a preference for are rock and mineral samples that are totally natural and haven't been altered by man in any way. Not cut or polished.

Although I have no rule that I haven't broken :-) I have recently been looking at some banded minerals like Rhodochrosite. The specimens I like so far have been out of my league financially and not as intricate or dramatic as these lace agates.

Fun to look at and dream :-) !

Dale

[Peter Megaw]

The agate slices are a LOT cheaper than good rhodo slices