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RHQTZ-50 - Quartz ("capped") - $ 900 Priestenstock, Bavaria, Germany small cabinet, 9.6 x 6.5 x 6.1 cm ex. Richard Hauck
This is a very rare style of quartz where the secondary growth of quartz on the original crystalks attached, for some reaosn, ONLY to three of the prism faces of each previous crystal. The effect is this bizarre style of termination! I had never seen one of these, personally. Interesting for anybody concerned with oddities of quartz growth, I would think!
RHQTZ-51 - Amethyst - $ 750 Due West, South Carolina cabinet, 10.6 x 10.1 x 8.8 cm ex. Richard Hauck
A beautiful roseate cluster of 3 major crystals to 3 inches, , all with incredible glassy lustre (so slick, it look spolished but isnt!). The color is typical grape-juice color for the locale and pretty rich overall - better in person than it appears here. The piece is not pristine or it would cost 5-fold more, but the damage is limited to a few small dings (not on the main crysatl in any case) and some peripheral contacts at the junction of the crystals. It displays beautifully and is a significant example for the locale. Label dated 1966
RHQTZ-52 - Quartz (Japan law twin) - $ 1800 Mt. Ida , Hot Springs National Park area, Arkansas cabinet, 15.2 x 7.7 x 7.5 cm ex. Richard Hauck
A rare Arkansas Japan law twin, and of considerable size, too! I am told that this piece was a famous blunder Dick was proud of, acquired in the 1960s from somebody who did not know the rarity of such things and used to illustrate how an awareness of unusual crystallography could help buy value in minerals. This is VERY significant for the locality, for a US quartz twin of this habit. It is unusually big and fat, for Arkansas twins, as well. The piece is complete both sides and has no damage of note save a small conchoidal bruise on the back of the leftmost temrination - a sad fact to be sure, but not visually distracting or significant in context.
RHQTZ-53 - Amethyst - $ 1500 SOLD Bankska, Stiavnica, Solvensko, Czech Republic cabinet, 13.4 x 7.2 x 7.0 cm ex. Richard Hauck ex. Smithsonian Institution
A really aesthetic and dramatic cluster of amethyst from a most hard-to-get locality today, though it was once known as a European classic some time ago. The color is more purple in person, grading to white - the photo just enhances the white portions for some reason at the expense of the color gradient. This old piece is complete all around and has only trivial wear, miraculously almost pristine. Comes with AMNH label (a modern label made at deaccession, though showing a very early accession number from the 1800s, #3475).
RHQTZ-54 - Quartz "capped" by Quartz - $ 1200 SOLD Schlaggenwalde, Czech Republic cabinet, 13.1 x 8.5 x 7.5 cm ex. Richard Hauck
A strange duo where the quartz crystal continued interrupted growth, but that interruption let a permanent barrier set up between the two portions of the crystal and so instead of a phantom, we have a detached "cap" that sits upon the original matrix and earlier crystal growth. REALLY WEIRD things, these! I have seen these bizarre "russian doll" quartzes before only from a few historic samples out of Cornwall, but this seems a valid example from somewhere else, the first I have seen. The old Lazard Cahn label dates this to 1927-1940, though it probably came to him already in an old collection, one would think.
RHQTZ-55 - Quartz with Rutile inclusions - $ 3000 SOLD Ibitiara, Minas Gerais, Brazil cabinet, 12.1 x 10.2 x 5.7 cm ex. Richard Hauck
This is a stunning large rutilated quartz in unusually good condition, and with unuusally rich inclusions as well. If you hold it up to the light, or backlight it well, you can see not only a rich interior full of rutiles but a whole enclosed "rutile star" spray within, that would make for a very expensive lapidary piece if cut out and polished. These stars usually occur within more clear qurtz, but this one has a pleasing smoky hue that adds appeal. There is very minor edge wear to the rear of the termination and some damage on the small dsidecar crystal, but the main crystal is otherwise complete. This is an old specimen but even by today's standards , its vrey good in quality.
RHQTZ-56 - Quartz pseudomorph (cast) after Fluorite - $ 2500 SOLD Deborah Level, Derwent Valley, Cumberland, England cabinet, 16.1 x 9.5 x 6.8 cm ex. Clarence S. Bement ex. Richard Hauck ex. Smithsonian Institution
A superb and unusually large example of quartz that has cast over an original growth of fluorite crystals, known sometimes from Cumberland in association with other things but really quite rare as a large piece like this. Beautiful specimen, complete on both sides! Note an inked black arrow on the back of this specimen was made by the early-1900s AMNH curator Gratacap in curating the display specimens from the Bement collection after it was donated to the AMNH by financier JP Morgan, who purchased the collection after Bement's death. The arrow denotes the rear direction on the shelf on which the specimen was to be placed, thus showing its proper orientation on the display shelves of the museum. As the MinRecord archive states, Clarence Sweet Bement was one of the greatest American mineral collectors of all time, from around 1866 to 1900, known for his high level of taste in specimens - even in the oddities such as this! Click on this link to see a copy of the original early 1900s accession book from the American Museum archives: CLICK HERE
RHQTZ-57 - Amethyst - $ 100 SOLD Rice, Virginia small cabinet, 8.1 x 7.2 x 3.6 cm ex. Richard Hauck
An interesting, and attractive deeply-colored locality piece, though honestly it has severe damage on the right hand side and some dings elsewhere.
RHQTZ-58 - Quartz - $ 1500 near Hot Springs, Arkansas small cabinet, 9.5 x 4.6 x 4.0 cm ex. Richard Hauck
A simply STUNNING, GEM CLEAR quartz crystal so fine and sharp, that it looks carved. This was mined pre-WWII (judging by the Ward's label) and would have been then and now of a quality among the top percentile. Few quartzes are SO clean and clear, so crisp, and so pristine as this from Arkansas. The clarity must be seen in person to be believed. It is THAT good...heads and tails over all but the McEarl pocket of the 1980s, in my experience of seeing tonnes of modern material from these mines in the National Park area.
RHQTZ-59 - Amethyst - $ 1250 SOLD Due West, South Carolina cabinet, 11.3 x 8.3 x 7.4 cm ex. Richard Hauck
A really dramatic crystal in good condition, with the best color I have seen from the locality in the grape-juice-colored SHARP temrination! This is classic old US material, and seldom seen in crystals of this size as oppposed to larger groupings but of smaller crystals.
RHQTZ-60 - Pyrite on Quartz - $ 2500 SOLD Spruce Claim, King County, Washington small cabinet, 9.6 x 8.2 x 5.6 cm ex. Richard Hauck
This remote locality is REALLY HARD to collect at. Collectors must drop in by helicopter, rappel down, and collect off the precarious cliffs here. Thus, as you can imagine, good specimens are few and far between. My old mentor , in fact, collected here often and told me firsthand often enough how hard it is to get anything good here. This specimen is an outstanding example of the classic combo you would dream of finding , though - a SHARP, razor-edged pyrite cube perched dramatically in the center of a nest of undamaged quartz points. And, its on matrix of pyrite, as well! The pyrite association with quartz is what made this palce famous and worth the trouble of going to - and the stark contrast of both form and color is among the more striking combinations in minerals. This is a superior small cab at a fair price, in my opinion.
RHQTZ-61 - Amethyst sceptre on Quartz - $ 2500 SOLD Denny Mountain Mine, Kittitas Co., Washington cabinet, 9.5 x 6.4 x 5.3 cm ex. Richard Hauck
Matrix pieces from Denny are as rare and desirable, if not more so, than the material from the likewise almost-inaccessible Spruec Claim (such as the piece above). This is the best matrix Denny that I have seen for sale in probably 10 years. It features not one but FOUR of the classic amethyst sceptres! Only rarely do you get a big plate surviving and coming out in any kind of decent shape. This one is very fine, with all major crysatls intact and just some damage to smaller peripheral quartz points. The amethyst caps are all pristine, as well. Like the above specimen, this is somewhat premium in price but for those who understand the rarity of fine specimens afrom these locales, and how hard they are to collect, the prices are not unreasonable at all in my opinion. I would love ot see these two special pieces go together and stay as a set! They are matched in size, and rarity, and desirability; representing two of our great quartz localities to be sure but also two of our most hard to get classic US locales!
RHQTZ-62 - Amethyst sceptre - $ 750 - ON HOLD Little Pipestone District, Jefferson County, Montana cabinet, 17 x 5.3 x 4.6 cm ex. Richard Hauck
This is a rather large sceptre for the locality! And for that matter, I cannot recall seeing amethyst from here, either. It is a bit rough on the lower stalk, but it is still quite significant for the locality. An old specimen probably in the collection or dealer stock (or both) of George English (1864-1944). History aside, its just a really interesting large quartz from a region not known for large quartz - especially not for many amethysts.
ABRN-64 - Smoky Quartz (gwindel) - $ 2500 Giuv Valley, Tujetsch (Tavetsch), Switzerland miniature, 5.9 x 3.5 x 1.5 cm ex. Richard Hauck
A stylish, elegant gwindel with a clearly twisted form, rare in colorless quartz from this locality. For some reason, nearly all are smokies, and a good colorless gwindel of this style is hard to come by. Undamaged, pristine, and complete 360 degrees so that it can be viewed from any side. NOTE: Not from the Hauck Collection. This is from the collection of Dr. Eric Asselborn, but it fit well with this update and so here it is.
ABRN-71 - Smoky Quartz (closed gwindel) on Quartz - $ 5000 Giuv Valley, Tujetsch (Tavetsch), Graubünden, Switzerland miniature, 5.4 x 4.2 x 2.7 cm ex. Eric Asselborn
This is one of my alltime favorite gwindels of any price range because it is so elegant in its composition, with a strongly twisted smoky of total transparency combined with a rich internal brightness, rising vertically from a slim matrix of normal prismatic quartz crystals that contrast the form of the gwindel so starkly. Matrix gwindels are uncommon, espeically good ones of this quality - and it is undamaged, pristine, and complete 360 degrees so that it can be viewed from any side. NOTE: Not from the Hauck Collection. This is from the collection of Dr. Eric Asselborn, but it fit well with this update and so here it is.
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