January 24 Through February 4—TUCSON, ARIZONA: Annual show
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PostPosted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 9:10 am 
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This may be a bad spot for this question so please feel free to move it Barbra if you would rather have it under equipment or elsewhere. I am curious about the kinds of lighting in use by those doing gem shows as I am doing Tucson for the first time this year.

If anyone can provide specific advice on bulbs I would be very appreciative. I will have a basic setup with twin 8' tables and I am not sure what my options are. Most of my stones will likely be displayed in the glass enclosures that each hold 60 white gem boxes and have black frames.

I will have sphene, Mexican and American fire agate, tourmaline, African sunstone, African and Mexican opal, a wide variety of garnets like tsavorite, demantoid, spessartite, etc. It will be your basic collector's lot as far as my thinking goes. It seems that warm lighting would serve me best, but should my focus be more on daylight color temperature for accuracy?

Any ideas are most welcome.

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Make sure you list where you'll be in Tucson on my Tucson thread above. I'll stop by. :D


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One thing you want to keep in mind is lighting in the case of course but also lighting extended even more overhead with pvc pipe so it doesn't darken too much when customers take it out of the case.


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