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3.7 x 2.5 x 2 cm. A pristine specimen richly included with minute flecks of shiny molybdenum crystals. One of several really showy, richly included specimens Dick bought from collector Terry Szenics, who found them in Chile in about 2004. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
4.0 x 3.7 x 2.0 cm. A pristine miniature, very bright and sparkling, featuring a wonderfully balanced central twin enhanced by the starkly contrasting prismatic quartz right behind it! Or in front...as either side is a good view depending on personal taste. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
3.25 x 3 x 2 cm. An outstanding toenail-(large thumbnail)-sized example of this classic habit from old England, often called beta quartz (though technically it only to the eye resembles true beta quartz in strict crystallographic terms). Isolated, gemmy crystal on sparkling hematite matrix; just extremely balanced and fine! Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
6 x 4.5 x 3 cm. A razor sharp, nearly pristine quartz of unusual clarity and quality for this classic locality, which is now defunct. It has just a wee slight bit of edge wear on one edge face, hard to see. But the more important feature, enhanced given the unusual clarity, are the rich inclusions of crystallized arsenopyrite at the bottom! Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
4 x 3.6 x 1.2 cm. Collected by Dick Jones over 30 years ago, these smoky twins remain one of the most impossible-to-obtain of all American finds, notable for the aesthetics, unique form and style and sheer rarity of specimens. This is an outstanding miniature, with brilliant lustre, gemminess, and elegant chevron patterns that reflect light from many more angles than you would think - making the whole crystal more bright and noticeable. I have seen only a few of these for sale in the last decade, and none of this size which I liked so much. Ex. Dick Jones, Richard Hauck Collections.
5.5 x 4 x 3 cm. A really 3-dimensional, striking sceptre, very equant; with an Alder, Montana "rock shop and motel" label listing the locality as 18 miles south of Butte. VERY GEMMY and unusually transparent for a large Montana sceptre.
16.1 x 9.1 x 4.0 cm. A dramatic piece featuring multiply-sceptred smoky quartz perched one atop another on a thin central quartz shard, as if the sword of quartz was in a scabbard of smokies. It is a really impressive smoky visually, and honestly I admit it looks more like a Brazilian piece at first glance for the sheer quality of the smoky quartz you don't see as often from Maine. Despite its size, it is nearly pristine, with just a small spot or two of damage in the upper-right, not visible as displayed anyhow. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
6.1 x 6.0 x 4.3 cm. An important historic specimen, these intense lavender-colored amethysts with an almost silky texture to them are few and far between. This miniature has great aesthetics, with real rock matrix as a perch for 1 inch amethysts. It has never been cleaned, and so is a bit "dirty"; but I like the antique look of it. Ex. William Vaux, Richard Hauck Collections.
13 x 10.5 x 8.7 cm. This specimen is a very important old classic for amethyst, and a scarcely seen item in even the most prominent old collections. It is also very LARGE! It consists of a plate of rock matrix, upon which are intensely purple gem crystals, to almost 2 cm. They sparkle like glass. This is, however, a really good example in that it is aesthetic, and not just representative. It is not pristine, but is nearly so with only a few minor dings (and probably is 120-plus years old, so you should give a little leniency!). Consider that at one time these were the BEST purple amethyst crystals for the collector in the world, for overall quality, and a treasured few specimens commanded their weight in gold at the time. This is, for the size and aesthetics, a MAJOR European classic! It is accompanied by an old Ward’s label from the mid-1900s (probably 1930s-1940s) and also a NY State Museum label. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
13.5 x 9.2 x 4.6 cm. From a 1967 find at this classic locality, this is a sceptred amethyst specimen of a now-classic style for Deer Hill. It is a MAJOR US amethyst specimen in my book. Extremely fine quality. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
24.8 x 5.0 x 4.7 cm. A VERY LARGE, elongated, very dramatic, tapering quartz crystal that slims from top prismatic termination as it goes down to the elegant bottom and a multiple termination. Little crossbar crystal for accent, and its all a floater with no contact points...just a good quartz of somewhat unusual aspect! Ex. Robert Hesse collection, so probably from the mid-1900s. Ex. Richard Hauck Collection.
9.2 x 6.3 x 4.2 cm. A sparkling bright druse of white quartz upon which is emplaced several crystals of intensely colored, translucent crystals of fluorite, to 3.25 cm across makes for a visually appealing specimen here...very much more desirable than the usual solid blue plates. The color contrast is wonderful as is the fact that each fluorite crystal exhibits both purple and lavender hues differentially in zones. This was collected by Ray DeMark on his claims in the area in the summer of 2007.
6.3 x 5.1 x 3.0 cm. A CLASSIC, OLD-TIME and showy specimen of highly lustrous, "wet-look", light brown pyromorphite prisms richly and attractively covering quartz-rich matrix from the famous Rosenberg Mine at Bad Ems, Germany. I particularly like the isolated, larger crystals at one end, which reach 1.0 cm. Excellent, two-sided material from this famous district. The Rosenberg Mine closed in 1928. Ex. George Elling Collection.
6.1 x 4.3 x 3.4 cm. Usually, you get one or another of the two things on this specimen, but not both. You have a sharp , glassy crystal of quartz shot through with golden acicular crystals of rutile; and, an example of the rutile-included hematite well-known from here as well - both on one specimen and not broken apart...very rare combo.
5.9 x 4.9 x 4.2 cm. A stunning combo specimen from Pakistan! The tourmaline you see here is not a schorl (black) tourmaline, but is actually an extremely dark green - except for the termination, where you see a slice of gemmy green! Right next to the tourmaline is an unusually bright and jewel-like crystal of quartz - with, fortunately, it best side facing forward. The tourmaline is nestled between two fans of bladed, snow-white cleavelandite - not at all blobby, but delicately bladed and flower-like.
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