TUCSON 2017 23rd
ANNUAL MINING ANTIQUE COLLECTOR’S SWAP MEET,
DINNER & AUCTION
Date: Saturday, February
4, 2017
Where: 6245 E. Bellevue Street, Tucson, Arizona
Location is the same as in 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014,
2015, and 2016!
Ample parking is available on west and north
sides. Entrance is on north side
Swap Meet: 10:00 A.M. – 4:30 P.M. (Set up at 9:00
A.M.)
Open to the Public at 11:00 A.M.
Social: 4:00 – 6:30 No Host Bar and Appetizers
Presentation: Tony
Potucek, “Forty years of exploring Western USA mining districts – above and
below ground”
Dinner: Mesquite Grilled Dinner $25.00 per person
Auction: Immediately following the dinner.
Contacts: Tony or Ruth Moon, 13000 Desert Moon
Place NE, Albuquerque, NM, 87111
505-797-0619 and agmoon@comcast.net
The Tucson show is the first of
the year and was a great success. I have been attending these shows for the past
6 years and this is the largest number of visitors I have seen since I started
going to the show. People were purchasing items and I was one of them. I purchased
a hand operated grinder used in an assaying office, a roll of fuse chord and an
electrical detonator box plate. These items will be going into museums to be
placed on display. The blasting box plate is going to a museum at South Pass City,
Wyoming to be attached to their blasting box that does not have a label. The picture
below shows the plate that will be installed on a detonator box. The actual
dimensions are 2 ½” X 3 ½”.
I took the following pictures of
the show after it opened on Saturday, February 4, 2017. You can see that the
hall was filled and also a noteworthy observation is the number of ladies in attendance.
The show generally is not advertised
to a great extent, but this year we saw a lot of new faces. It was not just the
mining enthusiastic mining artifact collectors as you can see above.
I talked with Tony Moon, the gentleman that runs the show and he said that they had the maximum number of vendors (28) for that venue. He said the diner after was also a great success with (60) in attendance.
I talked with Tony Moon, the gentleman that runs the show and he said that they had the maximum number of vendors (28) for that venue. He said the diner after was also a great success with (60) in attendance.
NEXT SHOW
CARTER CAVES STATE PARK 2017 5th
Eastern
Mining Collectors Association
What: The fourth annual
Spring Meet and Show featuring vendors from across the country selling, buying
mining artifacts.Where: at Carter Caves State Resort Park, 344 Caveland Drive in Olive Hill, Kentucky
When: 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, April 1.
How Much: Free and open to the public. There are mining items for sale.
Directions: Take I-64 west from Huntington about 40 minutes to Exit 161, take U.S. 60 east.
Go approximately two miles and turn left on KY 182 north. The park entrance is three miles from the
left turn onto KY 182 north.
CONTACT: For more information visit us on the web at www.guysdropper.com or call Colin Gatland at 937-367-6295.
NEXT SHOW
OURAY,
CO 2017
Western Mining Artifact Show & Auction
Date: Saturday, June 17, 2017
Where; Ouray Community Center, 320 Sixth Street, Ouray, Colorado
Swap Meet: 9 AM to 4 PM (set up 7 - 9)
Contact: Steve Rush 970-249-2309 nevsmith@ridgwayco.net
Western Mining Artifact Show & Auction
Date: Saturday, June 17, 2017
Where; Ouray Community Center, 320 Sixth Street, Ouray, Colorado
Swap Meet: 9 AM to 4 PM (set up 7 - 9)
Contact: Steve Rush 970-249-2309 nevsmith@ridgwayco.net
