US$    € EURO    ¥ YEN    £ POUND    CAN$    AUS$    (click on a page number to go to that page:) 1 2 3  page 1 / 3  -  36 specimens selected  -  next  -  bottom  -  back to the Galleries  11edd90d - Epidote with Byssolite and Dolomite - $ 7000 SOLD Knappenwand, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria small cabinet, 9 x 6.5 x 5.9 cm ex.  Dr. Edward David ex.  Rolf Wein CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: This is a visually impressive epidote from the classic old locality, with unusually stoudt and thick crystals. They have lustre like glass! The terminations are remarkably 3-dimensional and stand out dramatically from the matrix which acts as a natural prop to the crystals for display purposes. You can see there is one hairline crack here, a repair. It it were not repaired, this would be a 25k piece for the size and beauty, and the rarity on matrix. So, while there is this problem, the price is definitely adjusted accordingly and you get a piece that LOOKS like it is far more valuable, and certainly has more visual impact period, than you could normally get in this price range. K-160 - Actinolite - $ 450 SOLD near Otjiwarongo, Namibia miniature, 5.2 x 2.5 x 2.3 cm ex.  Charlie Key CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: Here was another surprise, GOOD actinolite crystals! You almost never see this specimens in specimen-worthy crystals for the collector of good crystals, and here we even have them on matrix! Charlie valued these highly, because of their notability for the species and also for Namibia. A very elegant specimen and probably the best of the three pieces K-161A - Actinolite - $ 400 SOLD near Otjiwarongo, Namibia small cabinet, 6.1 x 4.1 x 3.9 cm ex.  Charlie Key CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: Here was another surprise, GOOD actinolite crystals! You almost never see this specimens in specimen-worthy crystals for the collector of good crystals, and here we even have them on matrix! Charlie valued these highly, because of their notability for the species and also for Namibia. Has the biggest crystal of the three... K-161B - Actinolite - $ 300 SOLD near Otjiwarongo, Namibia small cabinet, 6.4 x 4.0 x 1.9 cm ex.  Charlie Key CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: Here was another surprise, GOOD actinolite crystals! You almost never see this specimens in specimen-worthy crystals for the collector of good crystals, and here we even have them on matrix! Charlie valued these highly, because of their notability for the species and also for Namibia. The most aesthetic of the three... MD-104068 - Epidote, Actinolite (Var: Byssolite), Dolomite - - Archived Knappenwand, Knappenwand area, Untersulzbach valley, Hohe Tauern Mts, Salzburg, Austria small cabinet, 9 x 6.5 x 5.9 cm CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: This is a visually impressive epidote from the classic old locality, with unusually stoudt and thick crystals. They have lustre like glass! The terminations are remarkably 3-dimensional and stand out dramatically from the matrix which acts as a natural prop to the crystals for display purposes. You can see there is one hairline crack here, a repair. It it were not repaired, this would be a 25k piece for the size and beauty, and the rarity on matrix. So, while there is this problem, the price is definitely adjusted accordingly and you get a piece that LOOKS like it is far more valuable, and certainly has more visual impact period, than you could normally get in this price range. 9 x 6.5 x 5.9 cm MD-118797 - Epidote, Actinolite (Var: Byssolite) - - Archived Krimmler Ache valley, Hohe Tauern Mts, Salzburg, Austria cabinet, 10.0 x 6.6 x 6.4 cm. CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: 10.0 x 6.6 x 6.4 cm. An old-timer from the Austrian Alps, out of the Wein Collection! It features a cluster of lustrous, terminated epidotes to just over one centimeter, surrounded by fibrous byssolite. Two of the epidotes are of the typical prismatic form, but above them (interestingly enough) are a couple of flattened tabular crystals! Acquired by Wein in 1986, according to the collection card. MD-119979 - Hematite, Actinolite - - Archived Maxhütte, Zwickau, Saxony, Germany cabinet, 10.2 x 6.8 x 1.8 cm. CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: 10.2 x 6.8 x 1.8 cm. A showy, old-time CABINET pseudomorph plate of radiating clusters of rust-red hematite after actinolite blades from an uncommon German locality - the Maxhutte Mine, Saxony. Ex. George Feist Collection. MD-121120 - Epidote, Actinolite (Var: Byssolite) - - Archived Seekar (Seebachkar), Seebach lake, Seebach valley, Obersulzbach valley, Hohe Tauern Mts, Salzburg, Austria miniature, 3.8 x 2.8 x 2.6 cm. CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: 3.8 x 2.8 x 2.6 cm. An aesthetic and showy cluster of lustrous, light and dark olive-green epidote crystals to 3.3 cm and partially wrapped in a cloak of soft-to-the-touch, sparkly byssolite needles from a famous Austrian locality - Seebachkar in the Obersulzbach Valley. Ex. Wein Collection. MD-139964 - Actinolite - - Archived Otjiwarongo District, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia small cabinet, 5.2 x 2.5 x 2.3 cm CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: Here was another surprise, GOOD actinolite crystals! You almost never see this specimens in specimen-worthy crystals for the collector of good crystals, and here we even have them on matrix! Charlie valued these highly, because of their notability for the species and also for Namibia. A very elegant specimen. 5.2 x 2.5 x 2.3 cm MD-139965 - Actinolite - - Archived Otjiwarongo District, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia small cabinet, 6.1 x 4.1 x 3.9 cm CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: Here was another surprise, GOOD actinolite crystals! You almost never see this specimens in specimen-worthy crystals for the collector of good crystals, and here we even have them on matrix! Charlie valued these highly, because of their notability for the species and also for Namibia. Has the biggest crystal of the three... 6.1 x 4.1 x 3.9 cm MD-139966 - Actinolite - - Archived Otjiwarongo District, Otjozondjupa Region, Namibia small cabinet, 6.4 x 4.0 x 1.9 cm CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: Here was another surprise, GOOD actinolite crystals! You almost never see this specimens in specimen-worthy crystals for the collector of good crystals, and here we even have them on matrix! Charlie valued these highly, because of their notability for the species and also for Namibia. The most aesthetic of the three... 6.4 x 4.0 x 1.9 cm MD-149215 - Epidote, Actinolite (Var: Byssolite) - - Archived Knappenwand, Knappenwand area, Untersulzbach valley, Hohe Tauern Mts, Salzburg, Austria small cabinet, 8.0 x 5.8 x 4.8 cm. CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: 8.0 x 5.8 x 4.8 cm. A showy epidote specimen from world famous and classic Knappenwand, Austria. Gemmy and lustrous, olive-green epidote crystals to 1.3 cm richly fill a vug at the base of a "mountain" partially covered by a "snow field" of soft, felt-like, grayish-green byssolite fibers. The matrix is nearly solid, massive epidote. Ex. Rolf Wein Collection, a noted Alpine collector, and purchased in 1967. MD-149423 - Quartz, Actinolite - - Archived Switzerland small cabinet, 6.8 x 2.6 x 2.1 cm. CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: 6.8 x 2.6 x 2.1 cm. Sorry for the vague locality, but we do know this is Swiss, an oldie out of the mineral collection of J.V. Jochem. What you have is an original crystal all shot through with tan-colored crystals of actinolite, that was later engulfed by continued growth so that it is now encased as a phantom inside the outer quartz crystal. Ex. Hauck Collection. MD-150457 - Quartz, Actinolite (Var: Byssolite) - - Archived Calumet Mine (Calumet; Calumet No. 2; Hecla; Hecla No. 2; Calumet Iron Mine; Calumet-Hecla-Smithville Magnetite Deposit; Patented Placer Claims: Calumet; Hecla-Williamson; Smithvil small cabinet, 6.6 x 6.1 x 2.9 cm. CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: 6.6 x 6.1 x 2.9 cm. An OLD-TIME and SUPERB Colorado specimen from the famous Calumet Mine! One of the very sharp, pseudo-hexagonal, water-clear quartz crystals is included with byssolite on this classic and aesthetic beauty. This is a CLASSIC, outstanding and pristine specimen from the Richard Hauck Quartz Collection. Comes with an OLD George English label dated August 17, 1889! George English was a prominent worldwide dealer and mineralogist, who lived from 1864-1944. Ex. Richard Hauck Quartz Collection. MD-159796 - Quartz, Actinolite (Var: Byssolite) - - Archived Scimfuss (Scinfüs; Schipsius), Pontino Alp, Tremola Valley, Central St Gotthard Massif, Leventina, Ticino (Tessin), Switzerland small cabinet, 9 x 4.5 x 4 cm. CLICK HERE FOR LARGER IMAGE: 9 x 4.5 x 4 cm. I think you could say that, pedigree aside, this is one of the more dramatic byssolite-included quartzes imaginable out there?! The piece shows an incredible spray of beautiful byssolite needles within. Sadly, there is a big shallow slice out of the left side of the termination for 2 cm down from the tip - not easily visible in pic. Still, it’s an important survivor from an apparently well known find of the 1800s, I am told - though a rare one, I admit. Ex. Clarence S. Bement, Richard Hauck, Smithsonian Institution Collections.