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Mineral Specimens with Gold
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A large and important nugget for the locality! Gold nuggets from Brazil are quite hard to obtain. This one shows minute crysatllization in the pockets, as well. 4.3 x 2.3 x 1.2 cm (39 grams)
This piece has to be one of the most aesthetic golds I have ever seen for sale from the old deposits here. It feaures an arborescent cluster of thick gold crystals leaping off contrasting TERMINATED quartz matrix. The gold is sturdy itself, and strongly embedded in the quartz as well. This incredibly aesthetic specimen has a long history! It was in the collection of the Austrian Museum of Vienna, until traded out and sold to collector Al Partee in the 1980s. When Al sold his his best miniature competition pieces, it went from him through Steve Neely to Irv Brown's miniature collection. I got it from Irv sometime in the late 1990s and traded it to Cal Graeber. Cal sold it to Mark when Mark was a curator up in Canada. Mark moved to Houston a couple of years ago. Mark brought it to lunch here in Dallas in July, and voila, its back with me again! I recognized it immediately. And, as a bonus, its now on the front cover of an important book on the mineralogy of Transylvania and these historic deposits. 4.3 x 2.7 x 1.3 cm
A killer miniature from this hard-to-get locale! Great Red Ledge specimens are scarce now. They used to come to market up until the 1980s or so. Some say they have the best lustre of any US gold specimens, and this one certainly illustrates the point in person. This one features both crystals and leaves, arranged elegantly around a core of quartz . It is of superior quality. 4.9 x 2.8 x 1.4 cm
A rare speicmen of WIRE GOLD, on matrix of crystalline quartz in a protected vug. Classic old locality material! 4 x 2.7 x 2.5 cm
An oustanding thumbnail of world class competition quality. This is from the collection of Bill Forrest, owner of the Benitoite Mine. He obtained this personally some 2 decades ago when buying a group of gold crystals in New Guinea. He says this was the single best piece in the lot, and i believe it! The sharp symmetry of the piece is fascinating and beautiful, and of a fine filligree that makes it stand out from any California material. It is truly one of the best gold thumbnails for this style of crystallization that I have seen. (not from the Mauthner Collection) 2.0 x 1.0 x 0.5 cm
This is a very rich, dramatic, large gold to have survived from the region. Most specimens have been turned to smaller pieces over the years, it seems. The gold here is composed of both crystals and leaves, both classical Romanian habits on one specimen! For sheer eye appeal, its a Romanian gold that can hold its own in collections with gold crystals from other lcoalities of larger size (NOT MAUTHNER COLLECTION) 8 x 6 x 4 cm
Exquisite filigrees of ropes of elongated, spinel-twinned gold crystals on pink granite matrix from a VERY UNCOMMON Canadian locality - St. Johns in Newfoundland. 2.2 x 1.9 x 1.6 cm
Bright leaves of gold aesthetically set in milky quartz matrix from a VERY UNCOMMON Canadian locality - St. Johns in Newfoundland. These pieces were collected in the 1970s. 2.7 x 1.3 x 1.0 cm
An classic old Queen Mine (California) gold specimen, a sculptural thumbnail that is not at wimpy and thin "sheets" but actually quite substantial. 1.9 x 1.5 x 1.3 cm
A 4-inch tall tree of arborescent gold, with SHARP , lsutrous crystals in particular on the left branch. Just an incredibly dramatic speicmen, with lots of glamour and visual impact! 10 x 8 x .7 cm
4.0 x 3.7 x 3.3 cm. This is, to me, a very unique specimen featuring the largest, well-crystallized, 3-dimensional spinel twin gold on matrix that I have ever seen available. This is not a flattenned crystalline gold as with Eagle's Nest material and it is not a typical octahedral crystal or cluster of such as some Mockingbird material occurs. Rather, this is a single thick, euhedral crystal, fully 3.5 cm tip-to-tip, just so nicely perched on a well-trimmed matrix. This crystal has a natural patina as the enclosing quartz was removed with physical means instead of the less elegant but easier method of hydrofluoric acid. It is complete-all-around and is equally fine from the other side. Ex. late Bill Forrest Collection: a longtime California collector, gold-miner, and co-owner of the Benitoite mine during much of its modern heyday. Photo on green background, by Joe Budd.
The definition of elegant...just a mesmerizing piece with leaves and crystals both, all balance don matrix. This specimen was photographed for the Whats New report from the Springfield Show. Complete and displayable from EITHER side, perfect all around, it just stands out amongst so many other golds of the same size and price range. 6.8 x 4.8 x 1.8 cm
Another incredibly elegant piece with sharp crystallography, with real crystals and not the "crystalline" style found elsewhere in California. 4.6 x 3.9 x 1.2 cm
WOW! This is an incredible, world-class thumbnail of this very rare silver species! Such pieces are usually 100-200 years old and more. Pristine, aesthetic examples are few and far between in any size, but THIS ONE is a competition level piece for aesthetics, aside from the rarity and history. Note the Smithsonian label showing it is from the Carl Bosch collection. Bosch didnt collect anything bad. Even his small stuff is good, as this exemplifies! 2.1 x 1.7 x 1.5 cm
4.9 x 3.1 x 2.2 cm. A dramatic specimen of thick, wide vein gold in the shape of a swan perched atop matrix. The color and luster is very bright and with a brassy patina free from harsh chemical cleaning. It has an unusual look and comes from an unusual locality, according to my source in Australia from whom I obtained it (Rob Sielecki, may years ago). The gold sits very attractively on just the right amount of matrix and is really 3-dimensional. Overall, a superb miniature and quite a rare matrix specimen in that the gold is on the rock as opposed to intertwined with it as usual. Weighs 51 grams, of which most of that is gold.
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