{"id":8794,"date":"2011-01-03T13:49:50","date_gmt":"2011-01-03T19:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/?p=8794"},"modified":"2011-01-03T13:50:49","modified_gmt":"2011-01-03T19:50:49","slug":"uncle-irwins-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/uncle-irwins-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"Uncle Irwin&#8217;s Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted in Elsewhere 7\/17\/05<\/p>\n<p>A number of years ago, I bought some rocks from Uncle Irwin (not my Uncle) who was an avid rockhound.<\/p>\n<p>Well, actually, I bought them from Antie Dah-riss, but they were Irwin&#8217;s. She was just getting rid of them. I asked her not to cash my check right away, but she did anyway, making the rocks twice as expensive for me.<\/p>\n<p>We have found that the rocks should be &#8220;next&#8221; in our series of auctions so we are going to do them next.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/onyxbeads.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/onyxbeads.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"onyxbeads\" width=\"466\" height=\"478\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8795\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/onyxbeads.jpg 466w, https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/onyxbeads-292x300.jpg 292w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Onyx Beads, not sure of price realized<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/obsidian.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/obsidian.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"obsidian\" width=\"441\" height=\"404\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8796\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/obsidian.jpg 441w, https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/obsidian-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 441px) 100vw, 441px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Obsidian Slab, realized $3.98 8\/9\/05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bluetigereye.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bluetigereye.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"bluetigereye\" width=\"419\" height=\"341\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8797\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bluetigereye.jpg 419w, https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/bluetigereye-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 419px) 100vw, 419px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blue Tigereye Slab, realized $6.99 9\/16\/05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/redtigereye.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/redtigereye.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"redtigereye\" width=\"479\" height=\"389\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8798\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/redtigereye.jpg 479w, https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/redtigereye-300x243.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 479px) 100vw, 479px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Red Tigereye Slab, realized $6.99 9\/16\/05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/goldtigereye.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/goldtigereye.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"goldtigereye\" width=\"405\" height=\"370\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8799\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/goldtigereye.jpg 405w, https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/goldtigereye-300x274.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 405px) 100vw, 405px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Gold Tigereye triangle 2 1\/4&#8243; x 1 3\/4&#8243; x 1\/16&#8243; realized $3.94 1\/22\/06<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/onyxchunk.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/onyxchunk.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"onyxchunk\" width=\"500\" height=\"483\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8800\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/onyxchunk.jpg 500w, https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/onyxchunk-300x289.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Big Onyx chunk line at 3&#8243; wide, 1 1\/2&#8243; h at shortest line, 1&#8243; wide realized $3.98 8\/27\/05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/rhodocrosite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/rhodocrosite.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"rhodocrosite\" width=\"439\" height=\"343\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8801\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/rhodocrosite.jpg 439w, https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/rhodocrosite-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 439px) 100vw, 439px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rhodocrosite (pink) 2 1\/2&#8243;w x 2&#8243;h x 1\/4&#8243;t realized $3.98 9\/27\/05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/rhodonite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/rhodonite.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"rhodonite\" width=\"495\" height=\"449\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8802\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/rhodonite.jpg 495w, https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/rhodonite-300x272.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rhodonite (w\/black) 2 1\/2&#8243; x 3&#8243;h x 1\/4&#8243; Realized $3.94 3\/26\/06<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/malachite.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/malachite.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"malachite\" width=\"484\" height=\"407\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8803\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/malachite.jpg 484w, https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/malachite-300x252.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 484px) 100vw, 484px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Malachite 2 3\/4&#8243;w x 2&#8243;h x 1\/4-1\/2&#8243; Realized $4.97 9\/15\/05<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/sodaliteslab.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/sodaliteslab.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"sodaliteslab\" width=\"495\" height=\"338\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8804\" srcset=\"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/sodaliteslab.jpg 495w, https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/sodaliteslab-300x204.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 495px) 100vw, 495px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sodalite (black) 2 3\/4&#8243; x 2 3\/16&#8243; x 1\/4&#8243;  price realized misplaced<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted in Elsewhere 7\/17\/05 A number of years ago, I bought some rocks from Uncle Irwin (not my Uncle) who was an avid rockhound. Well, actually, I bought them from Antie Dah-riss, but they were Irwin&#8217;s. She was just getting rid of them. I asked her not to cash my check right away, but &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/uncle-irwins-rocks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uncle Irwin&#8217;s Rocks<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[723,2837],"class_list":["post-8794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-gallery","tag-sold","tag-uncle-irwins-rocks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8794"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8806,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8794\/revisions\/8806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/saintstevensthingery.com\/mybackpages\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}