Chase Pipes on Blogger: September 2019

Thursday, September 19, 2019

Tucson Show Offers an Extensive Array of Artifacts

Fossil Photo by Michel Porro on Unsplash

Chase Pipes of Dandridge, Tennessee, is the co-owner and operator of the Smoky Mountain Relic Room, a business that offers the largest diversity of historical items for retail anywhere in North America. Dedicated to finding and preserving artifacts and natural items, Chase Pipes and his Smoky Mountain Relic Room team attend the popular Tucson Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Show held each year in Tucson, Arizona. The Smoky Mountain Relic Room offers the largest diversity of human history for sale at the Tucson show and are located at the Days Inn Room 117 & 119.

The Tucson Gem, Mineral, and Fossil Showcase has been held for over 50 years, and is the largest show of its kind on the planet. Items on display at the show range from woolly mammoth legs and tyrannosaurus rex teeth to 80-pound meteorites and 5-ton amethyst geodes. Visitors attending the show can shop for artifacts, asteroids, fossils, minerals, museum-quality gems, and more.

Different shows are featured at multiple locations around the town, though most occur in the mid-town and downtown areas of the city, including the site of the Tucson Convention Center. Throughout the event, visitors can ride a free shuttle van between the different shows, most of which are free as well. Not only for industry experts, this show is also family-friendly. It offers a junior education area and free seminars to the public.

About Chase Pipes

Guiding the Smoky Mountain Relic Room, Chase Pipes is a respected presence in the Sevierville, Tennessee community who wholesales and retails fossils, gems, crystals, meteorites, and historical artifacts. Passionate about his work, Chase Pipes regularly goes out into the field in search of finds. His areas of expertise extend to fossil preparation and preservation, and the restoration of historical items that have deteriorated or been damaged to museum condition.

Mr. Pipes’ business benefits from a retail location within Smoky Mountain Knife Works, which receives approximately 1.5 million visitors each year. He takes pride in placing pieces of living history into the hands of people who did not realize that they could afford one.

Mr. Pipes is also a living historian who guides visitors at state parks and demonstrates what life was like in the 18th century during the War of Independence. He has undertaken volunteer work at state parks that involved the construction of 18th century buildings while dressed in historically accurate garb and using only methods and tools from the era. A lifelong student of history, Chase Pipes has taught others about essential frontier techniques and skills.