CGMA (Chicago Gem-Mineral Association) 42nd Annual Show

[Nimravis]

Today, for the first time, I decided to go out to the Kane County Fairgrounds, Batavia, Illinois- to see what the CGMA Show had to offer. I believe that this show is held every Memorial Day weekend and is open on Saturday and Sunday. I arrived a little before the opening time of 10 am and could not believe the amount of people that were waiting in line. The admission for adults was $5.00, I believe Seniors were $3.00. Once inside there were 2 large room with dealers, demonstrations and a kids corner. In the hallway between the two rooms there were some exhibits, a silent auction as well as a food station. I spent about 2 hours looking around and really had a lot of fun. If you are in the Chicagoland area this weekend, stop by and check it out, I will make sure that I hit it next year because it was really nice to see dealers that I have never seen at shows before.

 

Now on with the pictures- A Lot of them.

 

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A Dino In A Box--

 

[Nimravis]

My only purchase of the day- I do like trackways and this did look legit and I like the nomenclature on the back. Tim @Fossildude19 you might be able to confirm that these are Rynchosauroides tracks from the Triassic Granton Quarry in North Bergen, New Jersey. I did see a post of you collecting from this site. If true, do you recognize the name of the collector? 

 

 

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[ynot]

Looks like a fun show (and sale).

Thanks for sharing.

[Tidgy's Dad]

Lovely stuff! 

Thanks for posting lots of wonderful photos again, Ralph.

Glad you enjoyed it and plan to go again.

The footprints look good to me, but what do i know? Not my area.

Love the tortoise, the Didymoceras, the dinosaur in the box  and some of the Chinese pieces 

Nice to see those pyritized brachiopods back again, as well. 

Lots of Moroccan stuff too, as usual, and some of it decidedly dodgy, but some good things as well. 

Droolworthy. 

[Miocene_Mason]

Thanks for sharing! Looks really cool! I can confirm those tracks are real, I think the typical species name is brunswickii, I have some from the Gettysburg shale of Maryland (which I bought from a very prominent collector).

Edit: the genus name is spelled wrong, should be Rhynchosauroides

[Raggedy Man]

Felt like I actually went! Thanks for the report!

[Nimravis]

7 minutes ago, WhodamanHD said:

Thanks for sharing! Looks really cool! I can confirm those tracks are real, I think the typical species name is brunswickii, I have some from the Gettysburg shale of Maryland (which I bought from a very prominent collector).

Edit: the genus name is spelled wrong, should be Rhynchosauroides

Thanks- I noticed that the computer kept changing the name. I picked it up at a cheap price and thought they looked real to me. Thanks for the confirmation.

[Nimravis]

3 minutes ago, Raggedy Man said:

Felt like I actually went! Thanks for the report!

That is my whole purpose when putting up show reports, I know some members are not able to attend shows and I like people to see what is offered and how much some vendors are charging.

[Nimravis]

12 minutes ago, Tidgy's Dad said:

Lots of Moroccan stuff too, as usual, and some of it decidedly dodgy, but some good things as well. 

Droolworthy. 

That is why I also include them- piecesblike that are everywhere.

[HamptonsDoc]

Thanks for sharing.  I really love that large piece with all the clams from Ruck's Pit in it!!!

 

I own a nice grallator track from the same collection (R. Salkin) as your new trackway... I believe he was a dentist and put hooks on the back of all his track ways and prints to hang.  Mine has a similar hanging mechanism on it.

[Bobby Rico]

Thanks Ralph for sharing with us. The show looks great, some good prices too. I liked the plant material and the polished and cut mammoths teeth. 

[Nimravis]

1 hour ago, HamptonsDoc said:

Thanks for sharing.  I really love that large piece with all the clams from Ruck's Pit in it!!!

 

I own a nice grallator track from the same collection (R. Salkin) as your new trackway... I believe he was a dentist and put hooks on the back of all his track ways and prints to hang.  Mine has a similar hanging mechanism on it.

Thanks for the info on the track, really appreciate it. To be honest with you, the nomenclature is what sold me on the track.

[piranha]

3 hours ago, Nimravis said:

 

 

This is an amazing association piece.  The Trimerus cephalon is 3x the size of the Dalmanites.  Go back and get it! 

[Nimravis]

30 minutes ago, piranha said:

 

 

This is an amazing association piece.  The Trimerus cephalon is 3x the size of the Dalmanites.  Go back and get it! 

It’s that nice? I might do that, unless someone else got it or another member who read your comment.

[KimTexan]

Thanks for sharing Ralph. I am sure I’d enjoy going to a fossil show. I have been to the Fossilmania one time in Glen Rose. But it’s a fairly small one.

 

I especially liked these in order of my personal coolness rating:

 

This is awesome! Probably shows how naieve I am, but it’s very cool. Do you remember where they were from?

I know, more cephalopod. You wouldn’t find either of these tumbling around in the creek. They had to be buried catastrophically” while alive. Whatever the case I am a lover of cephalopods, which is a bit odd considering I have no fascination with the modern ones except for that scintillating thing they do with their photophores and chromatophores. I got to see the chromatophore thing in person while out on a marine research boat once. I got to see it at one of my uncle’s who lived on an island off the west coast of Florida.

This is another cool one I have admired before. Do you recall what they go for?

 

If these are cones then this is my 3 coolest thing. Cones are on my top 5 bucket list of fossils to find one day. In particular cones from Patagonia. Pine or cycad would be great, but any will suffice. Not sure of the likelihood of that happening since no Patagonia trips are anywhere in the near future.

Are these cycad cones?

 

The next in coolness for me are these 2 teeth pieces. I would not mind having a mastodon tooth, mammoths are cool too, but mastodon teeth seem cooler to me.

 

@Bobby Rico posted some of his mammal collection. He had a picture of an elephant like creature that looked so cool and bizarre, can’t remember the name. It wasn’t this, but he might appreciate this tooth piece too.

 

 

I am not so much a bivalve person, but I can appreciate this and the coolness of it. What is the matrix there? I can’t tell.

I liked the other clams too. Oh and the cluster of gastropods was cool too.

 

What are these? Eggs? Pretty cool looking. They look almost like the iris of the eye, but I’ll pass on the nearly $600 price tag.

 

Thanks for sharing.

[piranha]

8 minutes ago, Nimravis said:

It’s that nice? I might do that, unless someone else got it or another member who read your comment.

 

It would make top shelf in my cabinet!   

[ynot]

2 hours ago, KimTexan said:

What are these? Eggs? Pretty cool looking. They look almost like the iris of the eye, but I’ll pass on the nearly $600 price tag.

Seed cones, cut in half and polished. I think from Madagascar.

[Nimravis]

6 minutes ago, ynot said:

Seed cones, cut in half and polished. I think from Madagascar.

Tony and @KimTexan That is an Araucaria mirabilis (Monkey Puzzle Tree Cone) from Cerro Cuadrado, Patagonia, Argentina and it is Jurassic in age. The price of $595.00 is for both halves of this large cone. They cannot be exported out any longer, and I do not see them offered at many shows.

[Nimravis]

3 hours ago, KimTexan said:

This is awesome! Probably shows how naieve I am, but it’s very cool. Do you remember where they were from?

Kim this is Didymoceras biosidium (Upper Cretaceous - Pierre Shale) Pennington County, South Dakota.

[Nimravis]

3 hours ago, KimTexan said:

This is another cool one I have admired before. Do you recall what they go for?

I did not see a price for them- sorry.

[Nimravis]

3 hours ago, KimTexan said:

Are these cycad cones?

These are Eocene Pine cones from Morocco, I believe that the belong to the Conifer family.