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There were three auctions tonight, and we won very few items. This auction lot was impressive, but I'm starting to wonder if I bid more on emotion than sense. (But how many chances do you get to buy a really BIG and complete fossil, much less two?) It was $202, plus a 20% premium, so $242.40. It'll be my Christmas present to myself.

The smaller fish is Mioplosus labracoides, a vicious predator that swam between 34 and 56 million years ago.

The larger fish isn't identified, so I'll have to do some research. It's a big boy. The frame is 14.75” x 28.25”.





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Gold is $1,581/oz today. When it hits $2,000, it will be up 26.5%. Let's see how long that takes. - De 3/11/2013 - ANSWER: 7 Years, 5 Months


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Re: Tonight's Auctions
By: Decomposed
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Thu, 23 Nov 23 2:19 AM
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Finally - and this is NOT an auction win but a Facebook Marketplace find - my wife found a woman in Massachusetts selling a whole bunch of cool rocks, crystals and minerals. I don't know why someone hadn't snapped them up since they'd been listed for 12 hours already, but they didn't and we got 'em. $50 for the lot. My wife therefore has to be on the road at 8:00 tomorrow for the two hour drive and 10 a.m. pickup.

The worst part of getting this is that we had significant snow last night... the wet, soggy variety, and we're at the new house with its quarter mile gravel driveway and no snow blower. The plan HAD been to just let it melt, but the need to pick up these minerals tomorrow killed that plan. Consequently, I spent more than four hours shoveling, then v-e-r-y cautiously driving the car down what I'd shoveled. I think I've mentioned it before, but getting into a slide on that driveway could definitely prove fatal - the driveway parallels a ravine! So going down it today made me a tad nervous. All's well that ends well, though. I'm incredibly sore this evening and don't even want to think about what I'll feel like in the morning.

Lots of photos follow.






























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