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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.
ex. Charlie Key
Cute little miniature smoky scepter sitting in a base of chalcedony. Ok, its small, but SO choice...this 2cm crystal looks faceted, its so clean and clear and gemmy and bright...just a mesmerizing little guy.
ex. Charlie Key
Here we have an elongated scepter with a smoky bottom, clear center and amethyst tip. Really unusual and visually intersting for the subtle color play
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.
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.
ex. Charlie Key
Here you have a wonderful, true Brandberg amethyst group on matrix. It is a veritable porcupine of crystals coming out in all directions. The large crystal atop is just over 3 cm.
ex. Charlie Key
This is a small amethyst group with an incredibly dark purple "veil" of intense color, running right through the center. Highly unusual and wonderful esthetics, make this a special piece that stands out. Complete and pristine all around.
ex. Charlie Key
Here is a scarce matrix specimen with two minor amethyst crystals on the bottom setting off the large frosted crystal with a dramatic skeletal termination. Quite pleasing to the eye, 360 degrees all around!
ex. Charlie Key
This is an intensely colored, dark purple amethyst of quite good color saturation for the locale!
ex. Charlie Key
This is 'another" scepter with the desired purple staff and smoky head, but SO clean, clear, brilliantly lustrous, and sharp!
ex. Charlie Key
This piece has a brilliant , gemmy , smoky top contrasting dramatically to a milky quartz bottom. It has wonderful SHARP smoky phantoms. Complete, pristine, and perfect save only a small indentation from contacted growth, on the reverse side of the crystal
ex. Charlie Key
A cute little scepter with a very interesting amethyst center.
ex. Charlie Key
Wonderful single crystal with perfect termination. Very nice luster. Goes from light amethyst to dark amethyst with smoky phantom in glass clear quartz. Superb!
ex. Charlie Key
A giant single crystal with mesmerizing complexity inside of it! The tip has a wonderful clay inclusion which filled the once-skeletal growth of this crystal, and then was itself covered over by a layer of clear quartz deposition. Has to be seen in person to be appreciated...its a fine line between "internally interesting" and "busy and ugly," I admit, but this one is definitely on the more interesting side! NOTE THE SIZE....almost 6 inches long!
ex. Charlie Key
This a great matrix specimen of extremely rare character and quality for the region! It is extremely difficult to obtain these due to the hard rock where they are found. There is a beautiful contrast between the rich purple amethyst on the white and black matrix. The crystals, to 4.5 cm, sit smugly in the middle, as if in a canoe, of a shallow cavity lined with calcite. The middle crystal is loose, wiggling a little on the matrix, but held in tight place by the two flanking crystals and so is not in need of repair or fixing...its interesting, actually, I think. For overall aesthetics, size, and quality (the amethysts are pristine and complete all around save for a contact on the back side only), this is hard to beat!
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