Stash Photos - Your very favorite piece

RogerP said:
I figured you HAD to have a pretty insane stash Mark, and you sure do.
Roger
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I knew he would have some interesting pieces put aside for himself.
This is the first time I have seen blue walrus.
It wouldn't surprise me to see Sabre Tooth Tiger tooth from Mark or something else equally bizarre.
 
Whow, Mark, that's some beautifull stuff!
Is that also two pair of sheep horn?
(middle/right top, bound together with bands at the top and bottom)
 
RogerP said:
I figured you HAD to have a pretty insane stash Mark, and you sure do.

Roger
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I do like the stuff, around here they say if something sits around very long it's going to be cut up and stabilized, I think thats why they keep moving the dog. :D
 
Don Hanson III said:
Mark, I'll take those blue/gray walrus pieces off your hands, old buddy. :)
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Yeah that's the nicest walrus I've ever seen, I am afraid it's just a little small to show case your best work, otherwise I would sure let you have them.:D :D they are actually just a little bluer than they show in the picture, but now I REALLY sound like an ivory dealer.:D
 
peterinct said:
:eek::eek::eek:....Don and Mark...those are outrageous stashes!!

Peter
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Isn't it funny that I live in Alaska where we grow the stuff, and Don has a better Alaskan stash than mine. The Tuscon Gem and Mineral show is a great place to get cool things from around the world.
 
Burl Source said:
I knew he would have some interesting pieces put aside for himself.
This is the first time I have seen blue walrus.
It wouldn't surprise me to see Sabre Tooth Tiger tooth from Mark or something else equally bizarre.
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The blue walrus is much more rare than blue mammoth, and highly prized. I don't have any saber toothed tiger, but people have shown them to me (and American Lion, they are very cool), that and short faced bear skulls. We're talking thousands of dollars for a tiger tooth. I'd love to have one but they are way out of my pay scale. I wouldn't put it with my handle material, it would be in another kind of stash. I do have some Pleistocene musk ox that is very cool. The woolly rhino is very hard to find, we never got any across the Bering land bridge when all the other mega fauna came over. I think it's because their legs are shorter and they couldn't walk as fast as the others:D Mine is from Siberia, it's about the rarest cool thing I would cut up for material.
 
Mark Knapp said:
Isn't it funny that I live in Alaska where we grow the stuff, and Don has a better Alaskan stash than mine. The Tuscon Gem and Mineral show is a great place to get cool things from around the world.
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But I have been collecting this stuff for close to 16-17 years.:)

And have recently got some very good stuff from you.
The big blue mammoth scales in the lower right bin :eek:

I would love to go to that show at some point!
 
Don Hanson III said:
But I have been collecting this stuff for close to 16-17 years.:)
I know you have, and I am not jealous...I am not jealous...I am not jealous, OK I'm jealous.:D
And have recently got some very good stuff from you.
I know you have and I appreciate it, I am very pleased to have found some stuff that meets with your standards.
The big blue mammoth scales in the lower right bin :eek:
I saw those, and I saw a few others in this thread that I used to have but you know, I didn't want to say nothin'. I'm happy to spread it around too.

I would love to go to that show at some point!
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If you ever get a chance to go, let me know, I can help you get dealers badges (50% off of everything) and help you navigate, find the stuff you're looking for. It's bewildering and overwhelming, like a huge museum and everything is for sale. I will be down there next spring (three weeks) if you get a chance we could look each other up down there.

Anyway, nice bunch of material you've amassed, I'd be hard pressed to think of anybody more capable of getting the best results from it. Of course we have a few friends around here that are right in the boat with you, I am always eager to see what you guys do with all this stuff.
 
I think we could call this my Koa stash.
Everytime I go to list it for sale......I find a reason not to.
I never can get photos to turn out anywhere near as good as they look in person. So until then I will just keep them in my office and look at them once in a while. The reddish ones are my very favorites.

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Those are some beautiful blocks, Mark - I can see why you find it hard to let them go.

Roger
 
the reddish stuff is very hard to find - sometimes it is very subtle as well, and hard to pick up in pics, as you said.

One thing I have noticed, though, is that stabilizing often seems to wash out the reds, whereas an oil finish will pick it up....so if you like the reds.....


Bill
 
Dang It!
I think I shot myself in the foot.
I was bound and determined to get a photo that looks more real life,.....and I think I have things figured out. What am I going to use as an excuse now?
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It still looks more red in real life though.
 
Mark and Don.. loss for words! That blue stuff is crazy. I saw a beautiful piece of solid blue walrus tusk with a crazy price tag of $700, i guess that stuff really is valuable.
 
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