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bb42 - Quartz with Amethyst phantom - CAN$ 156 SOLD Gobobos, Namibia miniature, 5.6 x 1.6 x 1.0 cm ex. Charlie Key
Glass-clear, razor-sharp, quartz crystal with a sharp amethyst phantom in the middle. The little prehnite on the side is a bonus.
bb43 - Smoky Quartz sceptre - CAN$ 208 Gobobos, Namibia small cabinet, 6.9 x 2.2 x 1.5 cm ex. Charlie Key
This almost textbook scepter has a clear shaft and a smoky head. A very small doubly-terminated accents the side of one face. A faint blush of purple inside is a nice accent as well.
bb44 - Quartz sceptre - CAN$ 416 SOLD Gobobos, Namibia small cabinet, 7.0 x 2.4 x 2.0 cm ex. Charlie Key
Here you have a smoky scepter : one of our favorites for its’ type. You just have to see it in person. All of the faces have wonderfully intricate skeletal growth and unusual glassiness for this habit.
bb45 - Quartz var. Amethyst - CAN$ 364 SOLD Gobobos, Namibia miniature, 4.2 x 1.1 x 1.0 cm ex. Charlie Key
Here we have a beautiful doubly-terminated scepter with wisps of amethyst swirling in the head. Really sharp and geometrically pleasing!
bb46 - Smoky Quartz sceptre with Hematite - CAN$ 468 SOLD Gobobos, Namibia small cabinet, 6.7 x 2.4 x 2.0 cm ex. Charlie Key
This crystal has a gemmy smoky-headed scepter with a clear shaft included with red hematite. The faces of this remarkable specimen are showing skeletal growth - enough to add accent, but not enough to disrupt symmetry. What a Beauty!
bb47 - Quartz var. Amethyst sceptre - CAN$ 312 Gobobos, Namibia miniature, 4.8 x 2.5 x 2.0 cm ex. Charlie Key
An off-center scepter with a smoky/amethyst head...most unusual and very "cute" !
bb48 - Quartz and Amethyst with Prehnite - CAN$ 884 SOLD Gobobos, Namibia miniature, 5.4 x 2.5 x 2.4 cm ex. Charlie Key
I love this piece! It is so unique...Two gemmy, water clear crystals sit side by side. One of the pair has a beautiful smoky amethyst phantom while the other is crystal clear. You couldn't make a sharper contrast if you carved the thing! On the back there are five small prehnite balls. The steep termination is unusually steep, with an extra face thrown in to accentuate the dramatic rise at the top of the crystals. This is a perfect 360 degree mineral specimen and aside from that the clarity and transparency are as high as could be wished for.
bb49 - Quartz with Amethyst - CAN$ 416 Gobobos, Namibia miniature, 5.8 x 2.1 x 1.4 cm ex. Charlie Key
A truly unusual glassy amethyst with a wonderful blush of amethyst and additionally a quite unexplained phantom inside that is much more apparent in person - maybe a clay-inclusion? This photo does not do it justice.
bb50 - Quartz var. Amethyst - CAN$ 130 SOLD Brandberg, Namibia miniature, 5.4 x 2.2 x 1.2 cm ex. Charlie Key
This is an intensely colored, dark purple amethyst of quite good color saturation for the locale!
bb51 - Quartz with Smoky Quartz and Amethyst phantoms - CAN$ 780 Gobobos, Namibia small cabinet, 6.3 x 2.2 x 1.7 cm ex. Charlie Key
Attractive, gemmy, crystal clear quartz with a fantastic MIXED smoky and amethyst phantom. Literally , of two phantoms one (upper) phantom seems to be amethyst in the middle and smoky at the edges! The lower phantom is a more total amethyst hue.
bb52 - Quartz with Smoky Quartz and Amethyst phantoms - CAN$ 260 SOLD Gobobos, Namibia small cabinet, 6.1 x 2.1 x 1.6 cm ex. Charlie Key
Water clear quartz with a beautiful smoky-and-amethyst phantom makes a wonderful display specimen. Like the above piece, this crystal holds an unusually mixed phanotm, seemingly showing both colors.
bb53 - Quartz var. Amethyst - CAN$ 468 Gobobos, Namibia miniature, 4.2 x 3.8 x 3.1 cm ex. Charlie Key
This great miniature of what is called "reverse scepter" is a must for any quartz collection. This piece is very unusual for the extreme elongattion of the reverse sceptre, and teh fact that the piece has survived, on matrix no less, from the Gobobos
bb54 - Amethyst with Quartz and Chalcedony - CAN$ 468 SOLD Gobobos, Namibia miniature, 4.6 x 4.4 x 4.0 cm ex. Charlie Key
Here is an unusual assemblage from the Gobobos, like none I have seen. The main amethyst crystal is surrounded by "wavy" growths of chalcedony. There are two clear quartz crystals, each with subtle hematite inclusions, attached to this crystal as well. The whole unlikely mass is a floater.
bb55 - Amethyst on Quartz - CAN$ 676 Brandberg, Namibia miniature, 4.7 x 3.2 x 2.5 cm ex. Charlie Key
This amethyst specimen from the Brandberg mountains is a great example of amethyst but a very atypical example of quartz! Note the secpters to the lef tand right, on quartz cores. Yet, the middle crystal grades elegantly into the amethyst termination WIHTOUT creating a sceptre effeect. Bizzare, on the same specimen!? In any case this is a lovely, 360 degree group of dark purple amethyst on top of milky quartz, technicalities of uniqueness aside.
bb56 - Quartz with Amethyst - CAN$ 624 Gobobos, Namibia miniature, 5.6 x 4.3 x 2.9 cm ex. Charlie Key
A gorgeous, 3-D, splayed matrix group of light amethystine quartz. Note that while two of the crystals are show reverse scepter form at their tips (n either edge), the core crystals in the center show normal terminations - a neat contrast!
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