There was a really great mineral show today at Autoworld in Jubel Park in Brussels, Belgium.I bought some nice fluorescent minerals. If I get ambitious over the next few days maybe I'll take pictures of some of them.
It was nice.
I saw a man and his wife from Antwerp who I know who has a fantastic collection of minerals. He has some new calcite that he is going to bring to the show in Liege in a couple of months for me.I also spent some time talking to a friend from Afghanistan. I've visited him in his house in Belgium before. Great guy. He sold me some nice fluorescent fluoroapatite from Pakistan at basically a giveaway price.
I also bought some nice stuff out of eastern europe and Russia.
I ran into a friend from The Netherlands.
Although he sells some minerals he really specializes in neolithic stone axe heads. I've visited him at his house one time, and he has a fantastic collection.He had a bronze Roman god figurine about 4 inches tall that was found using a metal detector near Krefeld, Germany. He was selling this for a friend of his.
It wasn't cheap but you don't see these for sale often. In fact I've never seen one for sale before.
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I've seen them occasionally in the various museums of antiquity over here in Europe, but I have never had the chance to own a real 2,000 year old bronze figuarine of a Roman God before. Neat Oh!
Link:
http://hpgarland.blogspot.com/2006/08/brussels-belgium-mineral-show.html
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