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13.3 x 5.5 x 4.3 cm. A striking, cabinet-sized, doubly terminated, light smoky quartz crystal from recent finds at the Pederneira Mine. This sharp, glassy crystal is totally water-clear and has fabulous accents. First and foremost is the 4.3 cm, terminated, gemmy, beautiful, teal-blue, indicolite tourmaline impaled in the side of the quartz. The projecting, snow-white feldspar with embedded indicolite is certainly eye-catching. Two fields of lavender, spherical lepidolite crystal clusters are a very nice final touch. This is an outstanding, essentially damage-free, complete all-around smoky quartz crystal with pristine terminations dramatically highlighted by tourmalines, feldspar and lepidolite.
4.1 x 3.2 x 2.3 cm. Two gemmy, gorgeous pink morganite crystals from the Barra de Salinas pegmatites of Brazil. The beautiful, tabular crystals have very complex termination faces and the large crystal is very nicely accented with green tourmalines. Ex. Michael Jactat Collection, a French dealer and collector, who was active in Brazil and collected fine miniatures for his own collection. These are not common at all, from Barra de Salinas.
4.7 x 4.5 x 4.0 cm. This is a rare and aesthetic combination specimen from the famous 1980s finds at Stak Nala, Pakistan. A 3.3 cm, gemmy and lustrous, doubly terminated, polychrome tourmaline is set on the side of a euhedral, pristine, floater albite crystal. Few Stak Nala toumalines have as much pink as this beautiful crystal does. The pink grades downward to two shades of green before reaching the colorless basal termination.
2.8 x 0.5 x 0.5 cm. This tourmaline is a rare Connecticut specimen. This crystal is an indicolite from a small, much lesser known location. Beautifully colored, the crystal has a sharp termination and is actually gemmy. A very rare and important east coast tourmaline specimen. Ex. Ed Boucher and Kevin Brown Collections.
7.1 x 1.3 x 1.3 cm. This is a superb old-time specimen with a fantastic luster, high transparency, and gemminess, and a unique blue coloration that sets it apart from most tourmalines out there, US, Brazil, or otherwise. Ex. Robert Whitmore Collection.
10 x 4 x 3 cm. Bob obtained this remarkable specimen in trade for minerals he collected, and it is an outstanding choice for his sole major Himalaya Piece. It is from the Bill Larson era here, probably the early 1980s. It has excellent glassy lustre. It is more translucent, and a bit more pink, than the norm. Taken together with the aesthetic splayed form of the piece (unusual), and the fact that this is pristine, this has to be one of the finest Himalayas in the size range. Crystals of this size with no repair are also uncommon for the mine. Ex. Robert Whitmore Collection.
8.5 x 4 x 4 cm. This is from the 1972-1974 find here, which every tourmaline collector knows by name and date and can recognize by eye. They stand out from the crowd of other tourmalines found in Maine or worldwide and crystal style is distinct, period. This discovery produced fabulous specimens, mostly with this sharply tapered termination and characteristic blue-green color. Ex. Robert Whitmore Collection.
5.2 x 2.1 x 1.6 cm. An excellent, bi-colored, gem crystal of tourmaline from Darra-i-Pech. It is pink, grading to a light grass green, then to pink again at the terminations. The multi-peaked termination is very lustrous. The crystal is complete and uncontacted all the way around. Unusual for these, one side is partially wrapped in off-white lepidolite, which is a nice accent. Weighs 24 grams.
4.6 x 4.4 x 4.1 cm. A fine example of polychrome tourmaline from Afghanistan. First and foremost is the super gemmy and glassy, indicolite termination. Below that are at least four colors of green. Nearly pristine. This is a striking, complete-all-around bi-colored tourmaline with high lustre and gemminess. Weighs 152 grams.
12.9 x 7.8 x 7.6 cm. Gillette tourmaline is rare enough - an example on matrix rarer still, and a specimen with multiple tourmalines on a crystallized quartz…nearly unheard of. This small granite pegmatite quarry, worked for decades in the early to mid 1900s and now covered by development, produced some classic East Coast tourmalines. The larger tourmaline has one repair, and measures 3 cm long. The smaller tourmaline next to it has one clean repair as well. The quartz has a shard repaired lock-fit where it slid off the remainder of the crystal right over the tourmaline pocket, set over the tourmalines, where that piece of the quartz was knocked off. Ex. George Elling Collection.
6.1 x 4.1 x 3.8 cm. This is a robust, stunning gem crystal of amazing quality. This is an outstanding crystal of highest quality. It has a glassy termination and a glassy lustre on the sides as well. Moreover, it glows with dark green color, even when only moderately backlit. Weighs 174 grams. Ex. Graw Collection.
9.2 x 5.0 x 3.5 cm. A beautiful, complexly arranged cluster of evergreen-colored gem tourmalines, from this classic locale. There is no repair to this cluster. All major crystals are intact, complete, and doubly-terminated in the upper portion of the specimen. Only the bottom of the "pedestal" crystal was connected to the matrix that this grew from. Jackstraw clusters of tourmaline like this are uncommon, especially without repairs. The color here is a dark, beautiful green. Not pastel but more evergreen in hue. Lustre is very good, all around, especially on the particularly glassy flat terminations of the major crystals. Note that the more slender crystal pointing up has a pyramidal termination in contrast to the flat terminations on the others. I find this interesting - two terminations on crystals within the same cluster in the same pocket. Weighs 93 grams. Ex. Saller collection of Germany.
11.9 x 3.5 x 2.6 cm. This is a large, unusually colored crystal showing a yellow-brown color when backlit, grading to the more traditional Malchan "siberite red" at its base. Although a bit frosted or matte on the termination, it is moderately lustrous on the side faces and has interesting vertical growth lines running its height. It is doubly-terminated, which is a trait not often seen in crystals from here. It is large, equant, and in remarkably fine condition for this locale. Weighs 215 grams. Ex. Neumann Collection.
4.1 x 2.1 x 1.7 cm. A gemmy and lustrous, old-time, Himalaya tourmaline from the Jaime Bird Collection. Deep green tourmalines, such as this, came out in the 1950s or 1960s, when Ralph Potter worked the Himalaya. This complete-all-around crystal has beautiful, variable green color density, a frosted, black termination and is very nicely accented by a bit of cleavelandite. Weighs 18 grams. Ex. Jaime Bird Collection.
4.5 x 1.0 x 0.8 cm. A beautiful, gemmy and lustrous, "red-tip" tourmaline from the Barra de Salinas pegmatite. The gemmy, cranberry-red, pinacoidal termination has flashes of orange-red fire and has an unusual overhang on one edge. The termination grades downward to very gemmy, variable shades of green. This crystal is complete. This is classic, old, 1960s-1970s material from this locale. Barra de Salinas "red-tips" are much rarer than Cruzeiro Mine ones. Ex. Steve Smale Collection. 6 grams.
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