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ex. Charlie Key
BRIGHT crystals that are so sharp and lustorus you would think them to be magnetite...for quality, amazing for the species. Additionally, for both isolation and aesthetics, this is a superior miniature display specimen of the species. Taken together, Charlie felt this was the finest example he had seen in his decades in South African mineral dealing.
ex. Charlie Key
A really neat locality piece with an approximately 8mm amber-colored, gorgeous sphaerlite crystal completely enclosed within the tip of this undamaged quartz point!
ex. Charlie Key
The second example of columnar hematite in the collection, from teh same pocket, and with qually bizarre habit. This piece shows only slightly less elegant display than the above, but is overall larger, more hefty, and more impressive crystalographically for the sheer size of the hematite crystals - and its still pretty darned displayable and dramatic! Like the above specimen, it is remarkably complete all around and displays 360-degrees. It is MUCH MORE lustrous in person. One of the most astonishing Kalahari specimens I have ever seen...and I think of some significance for hematite as a species, as well
ex. Charlie Key
A somewhat more elegant but less massive specimen featuring, this time, an ilmenite perched ON the smokies instead of vice versa. This specimen ALSO HOSTS, in the middle zone of sparkling brown you see there, ferberite and a small 8 mm topaz as well as probably other species that are micros. It is extremely aesthetic, overall, for what it is...and the crystal is complete around the upper termination and sides around to the back face
ex. Charlie Key
One of the choicest thumbnails in the collection, featuring a transparent, read-through, blue aqua perched on smoky! What perfect, complementing balance! The aqua rises through the smoky, which has grown around the base of the aqua. No damage, and complete and pristine all around save for a very shallow natural contact on the smoky that is hard to see anyhow, at its base. The aqua has PERFECT and highly bevelled termination
ex. Charlie Key
This cabinet specimen features a 6 x 2 x 2 cm aqua of deep color, with several accenting crystals by its termination, perched on a strangely etched, windswept-looking feldspar crystal cluster. It is EXTREMELY dramatic in its overall display, and you get a lot more for your money here than with a comparably sized Pakistani Aqua, which likely would have to have a repair to get to this price range and sitll retain the quality. I cannot tell you why , but Erongo Aquas just do not ge tthe respect they deserve. THIS ONE should! Comes with custom lucite display base.
ex. Charlie Key
A SUPERB cluster of intricate jackstraw aquas, among the best I have sene of this style form a few years ago, that just glows with color and glass lustre! Perfect, pristine, complete all around, and absolutely riveting! Comes with custom lucite display base.
ex. Charlie Key
Beautiful contrast, from this snowy blanket of drusy quartz laying over the top and back of a deeply colored amethyst! Comes with custom lucite display base.
ex. Charlie Key
Wow! What a juxtaposition! I cannot imagine how such a thing came to be, but here it is - smoky off one hlaf (sceptred as a bonus); and amethyst shooting the other way! Comes with custom lucite display base. Pristine and complete all around.
ex. Charlie Key
Another surprising combination of quartz colors on the same specimen, with both amethyst and smoky quartz zones within the same crysatl - not phantoms with discrete layering but truly MIXED up and contrasting wildly! You almost never see this effect carried off so well...usually the result is ugly, not pretty. Also, the crystal has fantastic glassy lustre and extreme transparency, so it practically glows. Pristine and complete all around except for one tny ding on the back of the term. Comes with custom lucite display base.
ex. Charlie Key
A shocking find, to me. I had never seen this style of quartz from Namibia til now...and Charlie had a whole flat of them of which this is one of the few best. The contrast is really striking, as with so many of his quartzes - collected with an eye to the unusual. Pristine and complete all around. Comes with custom lucite display base.
ex. Charlie Key
The suite of Oranje River quartz was one of Charlie's prides, built up over 20 years as this locality steadily produced a trickle each year. This is one of the most dramatic pieces, i fnot the largest (we have plates to 12 inches!), featuring the most intense red coloring due to hematite inclusions. It is a pristine and lustrous specimen with excellent 3-dimensionality and form, much more apparent in person. The largest crystal is 8 cm. Comes with custom lucite display base.
ex. Charlie Key
A true killer featuring a 4 x 3 x 3 cm cluster of GEMMY, GLASSY poldervaartite sitting starkly on contrasting matrix! ALMOST NEVER do you get such upright, 3-dimensional clusters! In fact, outside of a very few specimens now in Harvard or the Sacco collection, Charlie thought this to be the best of its style in this regard. It is important to see how much relief the piece has, to make the polder leap out at you visually, when compared to other specimens where the crystals are embedded or laying flat. Charlie felt very strongly that, amidst all that came out, he did get the chance to choose for himself several of the very best, shown here now for the first time since they were mined. Comes with custom lucite display base.
ex. Charlie Key
#2: 4.5 cm tall - $12500 (SOLD) #3: 3 cm tall - $3000 Three superb large jerems from the famous finds of about 5 years ago, that Charlie was first on the scene for and stashed away since then. These have exceptional lustre, deep blue color for the find (most were colorless to pale blue), and are LARGE....Most of us will never own a good jeremejevite of such stature. This is a rare opportunity, however, to do so.
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