I love reading Lee Child’s Jack Reacher novels. Reacher is always figuring the odds for everything, but even Reacher could not figure the odds of what happened yesterday. On our way to the Kino Sports Complex to buy a new Titan from Diamond Pacific, we stopped at the 22nd Street Show just kick around. I saw a small sign that a dealer at the show was going out of business and liquidating his stock, including a used Titan lapidary machine! It turned out to be a great buy, and he had some extra tools, wheels, and add-ons that he had used. This morning we returned to pick up the “monster” that needed the whole back area of our little car.
My new (used) Titan takes up the entire back of the Tracker
Azurite Malachite from Morenci Az
Pretty nice D-Bone
If you are in town, be aware that the big Show Guide has been unreliable this year about dates that shows are open. This has been disappointing because this has always been the “bible” of when to visit the 45 shows!
Lots of Turquoise arond this year at Kino.
Turkish Stick Agate
Rock painting by A.Znaniecki
A. Znaniecki
Boulder Opal-Queensland
What’s inside?
Chrysoprase Australia
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Tigereye
Mexican Carnilian
Rose Quartz
Asking $22,000????
Typical Vendor at Kino
We headed over to Kino with no particular plans now that I have my new/old Titan. Kino is always an eclectic variety of vendors. You never know what you might see here. In the farthest back tent I always find something of interest. I bought some Turkish Stick Agate that I am told is quite rare from Eskisehir, Turkey. Nearby were more buckets of Turquoise, and some vendors just getting set up. We sell agate pendants from many world locations, you can see them on our Agate Treasures web page.
By the door were some painted rocks that I liked by A. Znaniecki. He takes rock slabs and matches wildlife scenes onto the rocks. Amazing, creative and realistic, he was featured in a past Rock & Gem magazine.
A flea market of tents is set up in a large lot at Kino. A tent full of beautiful Malachite was one of the first things I saw. Nearby I bought some pretty Morenci azurite/malachite. Meanwhile Bonnie was talking to a miner of Queensland boulder opal. He had some pieces that were separated at the seams of opal, like puzzle pieces. He demonstrated how thin the seams of blue, green, and white colors are, hidden throughout the boulder matrix.
I had a nice talk with Bo Bohannon from Utah who has lots of dinosaur bone slabs and yellow cat petrified redwood. You may know that I really like both of these and have made various pendants from them, but I have some more ideas…stay tuned!
There are always sculptures, geodes, tabletops of rocks, and huge rock chunks. We saw some great chrysoprase. We skip past the hodge-podge imported goods from India and China, and stop to admire the rock cabochons and piles of rock. Note the pile of buffalo skulls. What would you do with one of them?
Rose quartz skulls were offered for $22,000, but maybe you could get a better deal, if you are in the market. Irridescent ammonites were $50-$2000, and other Morrocan ammonites were less expensive. See our ammonite pendants and more on our fossil page.
We left a lot of Kino unexplored, and left early to pace ourselves!