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Mineral Specimens with Beryl
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7.5 x 1.8 x 0.8 cm. A superb, gemmy crystal of aquamarine, terminated on top, with a water-like clarity to it. It is an unusually flattened crystal, for the reason that it grew flat against matrix; the backside is a flat (natural) matrix contact. This fine and sizeable gem crystal weighs 23 grams.
Water-clear, colorless and lustrous “poker-chip” goshenite crystals with inclusions of dark-green tourmaline crystals and a bit of albite. From a single find in the late 1980’s, this is really classic and unique material that is now seldom seen on the market after all those years. This would be considered a very good example for the size! 6.4 x 5.7 x 3.2 cm
A beautifully gemmy and etched lemon-green, 16 gram heliodor crystal. Complete all-around and undamaged. 5.0 x 1.8 x 1.6 cm
3.6 x 2.6 x 1.7 cm. A superb, sharp, complete all-around, tabular, gemmy morganite crystal with vivid pink color from the less well-known Elizabeth R. Mine of San Diego County. This gorgeous crystal is attached to feldspar matrix with smaller morganite crystals. Ex. Jamie Bird Collection.
18.3 x 12 x 12 cm. This stunning, unrepaired aquamarine specimen is one of the finest in its size class and style. It has a unique 3-dimensionality to it. The piece is dramatic, for the way the starkly contrasting crystallized albite matrix serves as host to a literal spray of crystals. Each crystal has a slightly different modification on the termination, so all are distinct, in a small way, in style. All are very blue and gemmy, with internal phantoms of medium opacity running up halfway through the 3 larger crystals. This is a characteristic of a pocket found in late 2005 and brought to market in 2006. Ex. Marc Weill Collection. This piece is illustrated in the Mineralogical Record supplement issue, Jan-Feb 2008.
7.4 x 6.3 x 5.8 cm. Nagar aquamarines have such nice sharp form and a beautiful tendency to form large clusters. This particular Nagar aquamarine, though, has a gemminess and clarity you would not expect to see from here, and is 3-dimensional and aesthetic. It features textbook-sharp, clean, transparent crystals to 5 cm and remarkably they are present in 2 slightly different habits (one an equant hexagonal termination and the other with all axes of different length, most unusual to see in combination). Ex. David Michaels and Irv Brown Collections.
5.6 x 5.0 x 4.7 cm. A sharp, somewhat translucent, 15 x 7 x 7 mm crystal of red beryl on matrix from the only planet on the planet where they occur. This is a classic example of fine quality. These are unique in the beryl world, and more are not being mined now. Only so many came out, and they will have to last collectors until hundreds of tons of overburden and a few dozen lawyers and other hassles can be removed to get at the deposit again. This location was once, a few years ago, even mined by Tiffany's looking unsuccessfully for commercial quantities of red beryl gem rough for jewelry - but it was too rare to do economically.
8 x 2.5 x 2 cm. For the locality, this is large (66 grams) and stunningly intense in color. It has a riveting dark blue that is similar to what you see in only the best Pakistani or Brazilian aquamarine crystals. Although the terminations are not smooth and flat, they are nevertheless completely terminated in minute growth steppes, and so this crystal is doubly-terminated. This came from a small lot of perhaps 10-12 crystals I was shown at Munich, in 2005.
An absolutely stunning gem combo specimen that I am selling for a local friend, who cherry-picked from Herb Obodda after his return from Pakistan four years ago, on his way to a show. Cal Graeber trimmed into a far BETTER specimen. Herb, in fact, considered it one of the best combo pieces he had owned of this particular mix. On a rising bed of albite are two GEM topaz crystals (one behind the other) and an equally gemmy aquamarine, jutting dramatically in front of an Alpine-quality gemmy smoky quartz. You can look right into the C-axis of the aquamarine, and it is so glass-clear you can see all the way to the matrix. Same with the topaz in front. Due to the great trim job to provide balance to the specimen, it is just exquisite! 8 x 7.8 x 5.5 cm
4.2 x 2.5 x 2.1 cm. John Barlow assembled one of the finest private mineral collections in the United States and the world, prior to his death in 2004. I obtained this excellent and beautiful cluster of sharp, gemmy, pastel-pink morganite crystals in from John in the late 1990s and got him to autograph his label. The unretouched backlit photo highlights the gemminess and gorgeous pink color saturation of the crystal.
22 x 15 x 11 cm. This stunning, large matrix aquamarine specimen is from a unique find of several years ago. Like others from this find, it has a unique 3-dimensionality to it, in addition to fine color and luster. The piece is dramatic, for the way the starkly contrasting crystallized albite matrix serves as host to the gemmy, glassy, unusually isolated and upright crystals. There are 2 small repairs (one to the smallest aqua, and one to the base junction of the middle large aqua crystal). The aquamarines from this find are very blue and gemmy, with internal phantoms of medium opacity running up halfway through the larger crystals. This is a characteristic of this now-infamous pocket found in late 2005 and brought to market in 2006, unique in three factors: crystal quality and color; the unusual internal phantoms; matrix aesthetics; and the fact that the albite matrix is crystallized nicely. Ex. Gene Meieran Collection.
10.3 x 1.7 x 1.4 cm. A superb, golden-hued heliodor of true yellow color - no orange or pale citrine-like color here. This is heliodor the way the name (from Helios, for sun), intended to describe a rock. The crystal is nearly pristine but for the slightest of nicks atop, complete all around, and doubly-terminated. The color is a more pure yellow than Russian heliodors. Ex. Edward David Collection.
8.1 x 4.1 x 3.3 cm. A stunning, water-clear, gem aquamarine with beautiful color. It is not pale or pastel, but rather the classic riveting sky blue characteristic of a Shigar aquamarine. The major crystal is complete all around, pristine, and very clean and clear. The sidecar at the base adds a bit of 3-dimensional and contrasting effect to balance the tall one, but is incomplete and really just accent. Weighs 72 grams.
STUNNING, DEEP GREEN, EXCEPTIONALLY GEMMY AND BRIGHT emerald crystal measuring 2.5 cm, firmly nestled in crystallized (and notably contrasting) calcite matrix. What is nice about the piece is that the crystal is implanted so thoroughly that there is no question of its authenticity. The color and internal gemminess are extremely high. 5.3 x 3 x 3 cm
4.5 x 1.4 x 1.0 cm. This yellow-green beryl (perhaps properly called heliodor more than aquamarine) is from the classic Strickland Quarry, and crystals of this size and gemminess have not been found there in decades. The crystal is fully terminated, with a step atop, which is rare. Ex. Bruce Jarnot Collection.
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