TIGERS-EYES AND AGATES

[Diana Rudd (Boehme)]

I remember many people having those tumbling machines in their pondocks,spending hours playing with their stones.A very popular hobby back then. Tigers-eyes and agates being the favourite stones. How many of you out there had dads who did this?

[Teel]

Wow!  Another memory dredged up for me!  My Dad ALWAYS had stones around him and did his own tumbling.  He had a large collection of tiger's eyes and agates and to this day my Mum still has little brooches with these stones on them.  We were always walking the streets with our heads down trying to spot a tiger's eye on the road and did, indeed, find a few in our time.  We thought our Dad was so clever transforming the ugly, rough stones to beautiful, smooth keepsakes.

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

I also collected stones of all kinds and made a Homepage about it

Most tumbled stones are from Oranjemund

http://www.dersofaladen.de/edelsteine/index.html

[Bobcat]

I remember many people having those tumbling machines in their pondocks,spending hours playing with their stones.A very popular hobby back then. Tigers-eyes and agates being the favourite stones. How many of you out there had dads who did this?

I've got a piece of Tiger's Eye here on my desk. my good mate Gerald Hodgson gave it to me. he used to tumble them in his shed,

[Robert Bruce]

I have had a Tigers Eye for years and have prepped it to be placd into a Geo-Cache inside to be moved from cache to cache back to 21 - 1st Avenue where I picked it up near the trees. at the back across the road from the house.

It has a message in the plastic container with another inside the plastic bag asking Geo-cachers to move the stone south to Oranjemund.

Well if a candle can go from Aussie to USA, then surely a Tigers Eye can be moved from Europe to Namibia?

So I need to add the tracker sothat we can all keep an eye on its journey south.

Don't say I am not sentimental!

[Bertie Horak]

I remember that as well.  Where did the gravel come from?  I remember Dad ordered a truckload when we stayed in E10/11 to throw in front of the house so there wont be mud when it rained.  We used to pick up beautiful stones there, especially when they were wet from rain.  I still have a few.
Oh, and then the "desert roses"  - they were so abundant - great for writing on the smooth tarred roads!  What a waste!  If I knew then what I know now!

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

This one is from one plant HMS prep screen

[Malcolm Bertoni]

I collected and tumbled thousands of agates, jaspers and tigers-eyes, etc, while at CDM.  I still have a few hundred sitting in my display cabinet.

Does anyone remember the Bogenfels agates?  They were a translucent pink/orange/yellow colour.  I'll have to take a few pictures and post them.  There was also a place called agate beach south of Luderitz.  Not sure if there were agates there....

[georgswa (Georg Ruf) (RIP)]

In the North of Lüderitz, agate beach......i dit not find any there, but in the gravel rodas in town, you will find some

Those Bogenfels Agates, i have never seen.

O look fwd to see your pics

My O-mund collection >>> http://www.dersofaladen.de/edelsteine/index.html