Lunch with the Spanns

Item Description

Enjoy a home-cooked meal for 4 with Jim and Gail Spann at their amazing "HOME MUSEUM" located in Rockwall, just east of Dallas, Texas. Sit amongst cases of breathtaking crystals as you eat a delicious lunch and chat with your hosts, the Spanns. The visit includes a tour of the extensive displays in their collection, numbering over 15,000 pieces and 'spanning' all sizes and species, with literally 1000 minerals to every taste. So there is plenty to look at....generally more than at most major museums. The tour will be intensive, as you see pieces that will simply blow you away acquired over the last 20 years, but also from 300 years of mineral collecting history including their new showcase of nearly 100 recently added items from the collection of the Hapsburg Archduke Stephan (1817–1867)! (Mutually agreeable date and time will be scheduled privately with the winner after the auction). NOTE ADDED from our end: Anybody who has ever been out there for a dinner can testify the food is as good as the minerals! Donated by Jim and Gail Spann and their family, in support of the Dallas Symposium.

This trip is part of the 2024 Dallas Mineral Collecting Symposium benefit auction, with proceeds benefiting Mineralogical Record, Rocks & Minerals, Tucson Gem and Mineral Society, and mindat.org. Thanks to all of our participants!

Billing for this auction will occur on Monday, August 19th, for payment using PayPal or a credit card.