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13.3 x 9.8 x 7.5 cm. This cabinet specimen features tens of apatite crystals, to 2.3 cm across, emplaced on white albite matrix. There are crystals that are tabular and those that exhibit more barrel-like, equant forms. They are mostly doubly terminated, and all are glassy and translucent, with dark forest green color that exemplifies the qualities that mark this now-famous 2007 pocket.
12.4 x 10.2 x 6.8 cm. Sparkling, white albite is the host for several discrete crystals of apatite, to 2.0 cm across. They are strikingly isolated on this well-trimmed vertical matrix. Most of the crystals exhibit tabular form, and are doubly terminated, glassy and translucent with a dark forest green color. This is definitely a dramatic apatite specimen and exemplifies the qualities that mark this now-famous 2007 pocket.
17.5 x 13.1 x 9.5 cm. This is a huge plate for the find in remarkably good condition: no repairs and no damage. It has a beautiful coverage of crystals. Isolated, they are all of the highest-quality apatite crystals for the find, and to 2 cm in size. Again, the isolation is unusual and these are perched dramatically on matrix of weathered albite for great contrast. They are olive green with dark cores, and most are translucent. All are sharply hexagonal, and are translucent to varying degrees depending on thickness. From the large finds of 2007-2008.
18.4 x 13.5 x 9.9 cm. This is a huge plate: no repairs and no damage. It has dozens of superb apatite crystals to 2.25 cm in size, perched dramatically on matrix of weathered albite. They are olive green with dark cores, and most are translucent. The overall flash and lustre of the piece is very high, with reflections shooting off at all angles from the many crystals. All are sharply hexagonal, and are translucent to varying degrees depending on thickness. From the large finds of 2007-2008.
An architectually superb specimen of very gemmy, lustrous and transparent orange spessartine garnet crystals to 5 mm coating sharp albite crystals from Tongei, China. The form is due to overgrowth upon feldspar crystals. We have posted several Chinese spessartines recently in auction, but this is one of the finest that we have had up. 6.7 x 4.2 x 2.5 cm
A simply gorgeous, aesthetic, gemmy, lustrous indicolite tourmaline with smaller protruding tourmalines, purple lepidolite crystals and a lustrous, white blade of cleavelandite. The darker pinacoid termination has low lustre. The one barely noticeable termination edge ding has no effect on this beautiful specimen, which hails from an unidentified Minas Gerais, Brazil locality (though I suspect it is Golconda Mine or area) 4.1 x 3.1 x 1.8 cm
4.6 x 3.3 x 2.3 cm. A sharp, 1.2-cm, euhedral spessartine garnet on a complex albite crystal. The major and minor garnets glow once lit with even a moderate light source, showing a faint image of the underlying albite.
Amazonite crystals that alternate from blue to white, resulting from changes in the solution flowing through the pocket, with accenting smoky quartz and albite. A nicely balanced specimen. From the collection of noted Colorado collector George Fisher. 8 x 5 x 2.4 cm
11.7 x 7.6 x 4.1 cm. Unusual and sharp feldspars come from the mountains here in New Mexico, still today. I have seen several lots. But, I have not often seen them so nice in this size, and the cluster of crystallized albite in the middle really makes the piece. Ex. Harold Urish Collection.
5.2 x 5.2 x 2.4 cm. Fine, gemmy, lustrous, striated, vivid purple apatite crystals are richly and aesthetically strewn across the crest of a wedge of pearlescent cleavelandite blades on this beautiful specimen from the Golconda Mine of Brazil. The large apatite is 1.4 cm and it is doubly terminated. They are glowing purple, a unique and very intense color. The apatites are very nicely accented by hundreds of sparkly, pastel-yellow bertrandite microcrystals. This is an excellent older combination specimen from this mine.
12.0 x 11.9 x 6.4 cm. An uncommon, fine, cabinet combination specimen from the less well-known Erfurt Way locality in Austria. Quartz and pericline (an albite varietal) are rare from here, but here we have a very glassy complex of quartz crystals nicely accented with a couple of clusters of bone-white pericline crystals, scattered snow-white calcite rhombs and lustrous, wine-red rutile needles included in the quartz crystals. Ex. Alois Steiner and Rolf Wein Collections.
8.6 x 7.0 x 5.3 cm. A 7 x 5 x 4 cm schorl in association with quartz and albite - a great combination piece, unusual for the locality in both its size and aesthetic arrangement. Ex. William Larson Collection.
17.0 x 13.8 x 4.4 cm. An unusual locality piece from this mine chiefly known for its quartz, and rather small in size. This specimen hosts 3 beryl crystals. The upper one is a gemmy, pale pink morganite, 3 cm across, showing its full window-like hexagonal face to the viewer. A larger, barrel-shaped crystal of 3.5 cm is at the midpoint of the specimen. These both have a pale pink color. The hexagonal crystal smack in the middle is more colorless, and could be called a goshenite. Unusual locality piece. Ex. William Larson Collection.
11.6 x 10.2 x 8.9 cm. This hillock of albite, stark white and bladed, hosts a 4 x 4 x 3 cm multicolored tourmaline crystal atop. It is, in person, fairly gemmy when backlit with even a half decent light. It has the classic purple zoning of some tourmalines from this mine, and excellent lustre. Although there is a crack in one lateral line through part of the tourmaline, it does not go through and the piece is unrepaired, as the albite held it solidly together. Matrix examples of these purple-capped Stewart pieces are uncommon and this is an excellent example. Weighs 1200 grams. Ex. William Larson Collection.
7.0 x 5.7 x 3.7 cm. This is a fine small cabinet with extremely good aesthetics that is an old specimen actually pictured in the mainstream art book: Tiffany - 150 years of gems and jewelry. The crystals have the typical matte finish on upper faces and glassy, gemmy windows into the hexagonal faces. The major crystal is 3.7 x 2.5 x 2 cm in size, and is so gemmy you can see right through it to the albite underneath. Few are so bright, internally. In fact, the matrix of crystallized albite is also sparkling and bright, making for good contrast. Nearly pristine, this major crystal has just one ding on a back face. This is not the typical pale pink, but a rather richly hued crystal for the locality. Massive morganite underlies the whole specimen, which can be seen from the bottom. A superb, rare locality specimen from one of the most important finds in the county. Mined by Norm Dawson in the 1960's, this was sold to Dr. Gerald Clark's collection. In the 1980's. Gerry retired and moved to Fallbrook where he teased Bill Larson with this specimen. When Tiffany had their 150th anniversary, Peter Schneirla of that company borrowed several of Bill Larson's important gem crystal pieces from the historic county mines for 6 months display at the Tiffany's headquarters in NYC, and several pieces were shown in their commemorative book to link the company to the historic gem mining of San Diego and the naming of the species Kunzite and Morganite from the region. Ex. William Larson Collection.
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