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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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8 x 7 x 6 cm. For aesthetics, matrix association, color and contrast, I was shocked to see this was a NC amethyst. The crystals, which reach 2.7 cm, are sharp and equant. They have great color, lustre and translucence (more so in person). The cluster is perched dramatically, complete all around, and undamaged save for one miniscule ding on the back of one single crystal of the group. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
8 x 6 x 5 cm. Hauck loved Arkansas quartz, who doesn't, but how to find exceptional ones amidst the crowd? Here is another killer cluster, complete all around, with a dominant gem crystal of total perfection. It has an old Ward's label, dating it to the early-1900s to maybe the 1940s. It is RAZOR sharp and clear, and is so good it looks carved. This piece is also technically a floater, having broken off from an attachment on the bottom and re-healed/re-crystallized on that bottom so it shows faces all around. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
11.5 x 5 x 2.4 cm. An unusually large specimen for the district to begin with, showing a pale amethyst sceptre sitting right there atop an unlikely perch of doubly-terminated quartz crystals. Complete all around, a floater! Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
9.6 x 6.9 x 4.2 cm. Brilliant, gemmy, INTENSELY LUSTROUS crystals to 3 cm, are perched atop a thin plate of quartz matrix. This is an extremely good specimen for the locality in that the crystals are the best possible lustre and brightness, the piece is pristine, and the overall sparkly look of it is impactful more so than most. Several central 3-cm crystals are doubly-terminated. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
9.4 x 7.1 x 5.3 cm. So-called "solution quartz" from this quarry is supposed to be the best of its type. Solution growth of quartz here produced specimens of a unique brightness and surface sparkle, long prized. I think the moniker has to do with the fact the crystals tend to be intergrown with many others in jackstraw groups which are not attached to matrix: The unlikely-looking floater status of these delicate groups thus reflects the fact they were in solution rather than deposited onto country rock. Today, mining of these specimens is done only by (risky) diving using scuba equipment, last I heard. I have not seen any good ones turn up fresh since the 1980s, as well. This specimen is a particularly rich cluster of solution quartz with a dominant crystal ending in multifaceted terminations. It is mesmerizing, in its complexity at the micro level. And, it happens to be beautiful on a big scale, too! Complete all around, 360 degrees, this specimen is COVERED with crystals. Classic US material, hard to find. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
5.3 x 2.7 x 2.1 cm. A very rare specimen from this famous find that has become an American icon of collecting, this is a rather unusual cluster for the locality. Most are short and squat single crystals, whereas here we have some degree of elegance! It has a slight ding, almost unnoticeable , on the back bottom-left of the sceptre, and is contacted in back. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
6.9 x 2.6 x 2.4 cm. A very rare specimen from this famous find that has become an American icon of collecting, this is a rather large example for the locality. In fact, its the longest single sceptre I have seen for sale. Most are short and squat. It has a slight ding, almost unnoticeable , on the back left of the termination. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
4.8 x 3.6 x 3.1 cm. This weird specimen of intergrown crystals seems to be a legitimate beta-quartz crystal habit; at least that is what it looks like! It is a TRUE beta because there are NO prism faces. They are pretty rare these old New York things. It has half a dozen interconnected crystals of sharp habit that look like beta quartz I have seen from Dal’negorsk. Minute inclusions are probably hematite. Ugly but interesting. Ex. Neal Yedlin, Richard Hauck Collections.
5.3 x 3.8 x 2.5 cm. A beautiful sparkling specimen with little quartz druse over pink rhodochrosite, and a small selenite crystal cluster for accent. Unusual old material, scarce on the market! Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
4.5 x 2.5 x 2.0 cm. Gemmy amethyst atop a gem smoky quartz point. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
5.7 x 2.9 x 2.6 cm. Gemmy amethyst atop a gem smoky quartz point. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
8.2 x 2.5 x 2.0 cm. Your basic, textbook smoky quartz GEM crystal, totally read-through in clarity, from the most classic of all Alpine locales in Switzerland! Old Ward's label dates it to the mid 1900s or earlier, perhaps. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
4.7 x 3.7 x 3.5 cm. Purchased form the Zewibels in 1970, this would have ranked quite highly at the very time the finds were coming out. And, by modern standards, it IS a supremely good miniature with incredible transparency, glassy lustre, and fat, pristine crystals in a 360-degree cluster. These are razor sharp and have a brilliant lustre. Fat crystals of this quality have not been found since...lots of long skinny ones, some more purple or more gemmy but not usually both. This is a great mix of quality and aesthetics in unusually robust crystals for the miniature size, and thus stands out from others of more modern style from here, quite dramatically. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
6.1 x 3.5 x 2.5 cm. This bizarre, brilliantly lustrous quartz point was purchased by collector A.L. Stevens from Wards Science Establishment on June 16, 1922, according to his own label. This label, the old Wards label, and the two museum labels shown are included. As he noted, it has strange faces on the front that are highly unusual and really leap out dramatically. Nearly pristine, its also a display specimen of some quality. The old cursive German labels accompanying the piece are hard to read...The location is translated as "Gemmi". This is probably incorrect, but that was the translator’s nest guess best guess. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
5.1 x 3.6 x 1.6 cm. A gorgeous, unusual specimen that has rare exact mine information preserved with it! The color is shocking red, due to hematite inclusions in the quartz cores, against sparkling black crystallized hematite in the background. Superb miniature of a rare style, from the late 1800s. The label dates it to the late 1800s, as well. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
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