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Providing fine specimens at all price levels to Private Collectors and Institutions, including:
Houston Museum of Natural Science, Royal Ontario Museum, The Sorbonne,
The Smithsonian, Paris National Museum, South Australian Museum, Seaman Museum
This auction is uniquely designed as a cash-flow/liquidation outlet from its origins. I do not generally buy specimens to auction in hopes of making money on each item as a normal mineral dealer and a normal mineral auctioneer might (although each auction set usually contains some small percentage of recently and carefully bought items in that hope, I admit). Rather, the primary purpose of these auctions is to LIQUIDATE minerals in quantity from a vast warehouse of accumulated inventory. The auctions mainly consist of minerals I purchase in the course of pursuing my main business specialty of buying and dispersing efficiently large collections of minerals; parcels of minerals bought "as a lot;" and of new finds from foreign countries, where I often must buy more than I could normally absorb and sell individually. Often there is simply too much material to move or even store practically, and liquidation makes more sense so that I can get what I may out of the pieces, and move on to the next deal with the cash flow. That is why the bids start with only a token $10 EVEN ON OBVIOUSLY MORE VALUABLE SPECIMENS, except for the rare "special auctions" of higher-priced minerals.
In the past, I would have taken some specimens off the top to spend time selling individually at the world's three major mineral shows and on the web; and wholesaled or consigned out the remaining specimens to dealers who themselves do more small shows or sell to more customers. I got to thinking, though, about 5 years ago...why should dealers get the deal, when using the internet I can pass on the liquidation opportunity directly to my customers? This only works for me in quantity and if it is efficient (hence the 2-week shipping cycle to combine auctions) ; and it only works for YOU the customer if the quality is good and the selection is vast. It seems to be working well, for all, to mutual benefit, and I thank you for it!
This site is proudly brought to you by Rob Lavinsky, with help from :
collectors Karl Warning and
Guy Lyman, and other friends here in Dallas; as well as Brian Kosnar for gemstones,
...over 100 years of mineral-collecting addiction between us.
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