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morg01 - Morganite - $2750 Pech, Kunar Province, Afghanistan small cabinet, 8.3 x 6.8 x 5.9 cm
A sharp hexagonal 4 x 3 x 2.75 cm crystal, plush pink color, set atop unusual crystallized matrix - I am making a guess that it is quartz-coated lepidolite, or perhaps quartz-infused or quartz-replaced muscovite or lepidolite. The matrix is odd. Sculptural, trimmed nicely, oddly interesting! This crystal is unusually transparent for the find. The photos in the bottom row show strong backlighting vs normal lighting.
morg02 - Morganite - $1950 Pech, Kunar Province, Afghanistan small cabinet, 8.5 x 6.8 x 4.5 cm
A sharp hexagonal 4 x 2.75 x 2.5 cm crystal, plush pink color, set atop unusual crystallized matrix - I am making a guess that it is quartz-coated lepidolite, or perhaps quartz-infused or quartz-replaced muscovite or lepidolite. The matrix is odd. Sculptural, trimmed nicely, oddly interesting! This crystal is unusually transparent for the find. The photos in the bottom row show both sides of this freestanding, dramatic crystal. I LOVE the matrix on this one, whatever it turns out to be.
morg03 - Morganite - $500 Pech, Kunar Province, Afghanistan small cabinet, 6.7 x 5.5 x 3.9 cm
A large, hefty, compostite crystal of translucent morganite with a rich pink color. This is a FLOATER, complete all around with no attachment points. It fell off its matrix in olden days, but the old contact point has been covered by new crystallization, thus making it a true floater. Looks too pretty for $500 ?! It has some damage to the top apex, and to the right of it, but the damage is shallow and really doesn't show too much when displayed.
morg04 - Morganite - $3250 ON HOLD Pech, Kunar Province, Afghanistan small cabinet, 8.8 x 6.0 x 4.3 cm
A sharp hexagonal 5.25 x 2.75 x 2.2 cm crystal, plush pink color, set atop snowy blades of crystallized cleavelandite matrix Beautiful specimen, perfectly sized and balanced small cabinet...with a 2-inch gem morganite smack in the middle! The crystal is complete on BOTH sides, freestanding, and undamaged. I could not buy this in Afghanistan today for the price...
morg05 - Morganite - $2850 Pech, Kunar Province, Afghanistan small cabinet, 7.3 x 6.9 x 5.4 cm
This specimen jumps out at us, as an unusually brilliantly glassy, lustrous morganite crystal . It has stunning water-clear transparent zones mixed with the intergrown cleavelandite matrix. There is a small bit of damage to the upper-left, almost out of sight to the back edge, and the front is otherwise complete. Actually, the crystal is a composite crystal with other faces poking out in back, and is almost a floater - completely crystallized all around. Again, the transparency and internal brilliance is STUNNING...and in person you can look right through to the internal matrix inclusions.
morg06 - Morganite - $4500 Pech, Kunar Province, Afghanistan cabinet, 9.4 x 7.5 x 6.5 cm
A dramatic specimen with a 6 x 5 x 2.25 cm , sharp hexagonal morganite perched amidst crystallized cleavelandite blades. The color here is a pleasing light pink, a little bit better than the photos show. The crystal is complete, totally transparent and gemmy, so that you can see through to the matrix behind!
morg07 - Morganite - $750 Pech, Kunar Province, Afghanistan small cabinet, 7.0 x 4.4 x 4.3 cm
This is a FLOATER, complete all around with no attachment points. It is slightly etched on some front faces, but complete. It fell off its matrix in olden days, but the old contact points on back been covered by new crystallization, thus making it a true floater and complete all around. Fine example of a good Afghani morganite for the price, I think.
morg09 - Morganite - $2450 Pech, Kunar Province, Afghanistan small cabinet, 7.8 x 7.2 x 6.3 cm
A sharp hexagonal 4 x 3.5 x 3 cm crystal, plush pink color, set atop crystallized cleavelandite matrix as if nestled into snow. I like the aesthetics on this one very much! The crystal is freestanding, clean and complete all around on the back as well. It is obviously gemmy, transparent, and has a good pink color to it. Quite a fine small cab, for the price, I think.
morg10 - Morganite - $5500 ON HOLD Pech, Kunar Province, Afghanistan cabinet, 11.9 x 8.4 x 7.8 cm
A sharp hexagonal 5.25 x 3 x 2 cm crystal, plush pink color, set atop crystallized cleavelandite matrix as if nestled into snow. I like the aesthetics on this one very much, as with the above, for the stark contrast of the sharp gemmy hexagon atop to the random-ordered white blades below! The piece is complete all around (top and second rows of photos shows front and back views). The crystal is freestanding, clean and complete all around on the back as well. It is obviously gemmy, transparent, and has a good pink color to it. The shape is RAZORSHARP showing not even minor contact or etching. for the price, I think, I could not replace this in Afghanistan now that it is trimmed up!
morg11 - Morganite - $2100 Pech, Kunar Province, Afghanistan cabinet, 12.4 x 12.1 x 9.1 cm
An unusual crystal measuring 5 x 5 x 4 cm, the size of a tangerine, just stuck there unlikely as it is, atop tentacles of albite and cleavelandite matrix. It is fat and unusually "round" in apperance, but it DOES have all the faces there. Internally it is pink with some unusual white wispy patches I cannot explain and have not seen before the like of (perhaps included matrix deep within?). The crystals is translucent to light, but not gemmy/transparent, so this is likely the explanation and those white patches are NOT surface defects. Note that the color in real life is perhaps 20% less pink than these photos show.
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