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ex. Richard Hauck
A really 3-dimensional, striking sceptre, very equant; with an Alder, Montana "rock shop and motel" label listing the locality as 18 miles south of Butte. VERY GEMMY and unusually transparent for a large Montana sceptre, and thus the camera is not doing it justice...its much better in person!
ex. Richard Hauck
A really sharp Japan law twin, lustrous and brilliant on the surface, showing a rare "closed" habit rather than the normal splayed-to-the-sides twinning form that is more classic for Brumado. It has a shallow contact on the back edge of one lower face, but is otherwise complete. Outstanding miniature display specimen!
ex. Richard Hauck
A dramatic piece featuring multiply-sceptred smoky quartz perched one atop another on a thin central quartz shard, as if the sword of quartz was in a scabbard of smokies. It is a really impressive smoky visually, and honestly I admit it look smore like a Brazilian piece at first glance for the sheer quality of te smoky quartz you don't see as often from Maine. Despite its size, it is nearly pristine, with just a small spot or two of damage in the upper-right, not visible as displayed anyhow. The rightmost shot is upside down, but it helped to show more clearly the dramatic and 3-dimensional growth orientation of the smoky sceptres.
ex. Richard Hauck
ex. New York State Museum of Geology Small Cabinet, 7.8 x 5.6 x 5.5 cm This specimen is a very important old classic for amethyst, and a scarcely seen item in even the most prominent old collections. It is also very LARGE! It consists of a plate of rock matrix, upon which are intensely purple gem crystals, to almost 2 cm. They sparkle like glass. These are so treasured in Europe that I have seen specimens of half this quality for more money, in euros no less, at Munich. This is, however, a really good example in that it is aesthetic, and not just representative. It is not prisitne, but is nearly so with only a few minor dings (and probably is 120-plus years old, so you should give a little leniency!). Consider that at one time these were the BEST purple amethyst crystals for the collector in the world, for overall quality, and a treasured few specimens commanded their weight in gold at the time. This is , for the size and aesthetics, a MAJOR European classic! It comes with an old Wards label from the mid 1900s(probably 1930s-1940s) and also a NY State Museum label
ex. Richard Hauck
From a 1967 find at this classic locality, this is a sceptred amethyst specimen of a now-classic style for Deer Hill that simply wasn't around before this exceptional find. It is big, showy, and complete. The piece is nearly pristine despite its size, with only a few very trivial dings, and is a MAJOR US amethyst specimen in my book. Extremely fine quality, large East Coast classics are hard to come by today.
ex. Richard Hauck
A VERY LARGE, elongated, very dramatic, tapering quartz crystal that slims from top prismatic termination as it goes down to the elegant bottom and a multiple termination. Little crossbar crystal for acccent, and its all a floater with no contact points...just a good quartz of somewhat unusual aspect! ex. Robert Hesse collection, so probably from the mid-1900s.
ex. Richard Hauck
The photos make this look more peachy in color, but I would really call it a soft, velvety pink hue in person. I had heard of these oldtime pieces from the amethyst grounds in Brazil but had not seen one before and am not sure what causes the unique pink color, for that matter. The crystals are small but the overall result is very colorful and impactful.
ex. Richard Hauck
An interesting old English piece, with quartz crystals soaring up from an (unusual) pyrite-rich matrix. Small "chalcpoyrites" which I believe to actually be tetrahedrite, are intermixed near the base of the quartz crystals and within them, on the matrix.
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![Quartz var. Amethyst from Schemnitz, Hungary [db_pics/pics/rhqtz-119b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/rhqtz-119b.jpg)
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![Quartz var. Amethyst from Deer Hill, Stowe, Maine, USA [db_pics/pics/rhqtz-121b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/rhqtz-121b.jpg)
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![Quartz (floater) from Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil [db_pics/pics/rhqtz-122b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/rhqtz-122b.jpg)
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![Quartz (rare pink color) from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil [db_pics/pics/rhqtz-66b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/rhqtz-66b.jpg)
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![Quartz with Chalcopyrite from Cornwall, England [db_pics/pics/rhqtz-45b.jpg]](db_pics/pics/rhqtz-45b.jpg)
![Quartz with Chalcopyrite from Cornwall, England [db_pics/pics/rhqtz-45c.jpg]](db_pics/pics/rhqtz-45c.jpg)