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Mineral Specimens with Quartz
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ex. Richard Hauck
A sharp small miniaturefeaturing a GEMMY 1.3 cm twinned quartz perched atop lustrous, deep-green epidote. Classic old style!
ex. Richard Hauck
A KILLER specimen, with an intense gemmy amethyst sceptre atop of a stalk of smoky quartz. Rare locality material in this combination, but hard to find in such quality - this one is exemplary for the location.
ex. Richard Hauck
A stunning, aesthetic cluster of gemmy quartzes from FRANCE - old material from this classic (now defunct) locality! Note the original old A.E. Foote label. This style of label dates the specimen's passing through his hands to 1880-1895, according to the Mineralogical Record's label archives ! Better - more gemmy - in person.
ex. Richard Hauck
A very unusual sceptred quartz, with some kind of funny twinning or other habit at the termination....just a bizarre piece.
ex. Richard Hauck
Just a really , really beautiful polished section of rutilated quartz, with unusual clarity and purity of both the clear quartz and the golden rutile within. The rutile needles are unsuually fat as well,. Overall a striking lapidary piece!
ex. Richard Hauck
A rare South Dakota quartz cluster from this old mine. Contacted a bit at both ends, but mostly complete and relaly quite a striking 3-dimensional cluster
ex. Richard Hauck
This piece, exchanged out of an old collection in the Paterson (New Jersey) museum, is unusual in that the two portions of the Japan Law twin are so asymmetric. The whole piece is a floater with no contact, though it has a little spot of damage on one edge, and also on the tip of the small 2 cm associated prismatic crystal. Really, it can be displayed any which way and is a very different style of twin, from Japan or anywhere!
ex. Richard Hauck
A really elegant, castellated piece comprised of stairstep rose quartzes shooting up off clear or milky quartzes, all sprinkled with really sahrp, elongated, translucent eosphorite crystals to almost 1 cm in size. It is not a killer rose quartz, perhaps, because the intensity is a little dark - but it IS a very , very good piece for the price, quite impressive, and a fabulous exmaple of this particular old find (associated with the eosphorite) from the late 1970s.
ex. Richard Hauck
A superb, very symmetric amethyst sceptre from an unusual locale....just hav enot seen many amethyst from Brazil at all other than the typical small crystals in geodes, and this fine sceptre is really therefore a shock to me. It is complete save a single small bit of contact or damage on one back face only.
ex. George Vaux
ex. Richard Hauck
ex. William Vaux
A sharp smoky quartz crystal with amethyst highlights from an antique old Russian locale, from the important collections of both William S. Vaux and his relation George Vaux (note the initials WSV at the bottom of his handwritten label, indicating its inheritance!). This specimen rises from a slender shard of matrix covered by small quartzes, and is very aesthetic in person! The label is in the hand of George Vaux, whose collection went to the Philadelphia Academy of Sciences , though this specimen was exchanged out long before the recent sale of that collection. It is MUCH better in person.
ex. Richard Hauck
A really beautiful quartz rich with sparkling, metallic inclusions of paper-thin pyrrhotite crystals, from this classic locality which is a deep gold mine. Never seen another like it!
ex. Richard Hauck
A brilliantly shimmering and rich rutilated quartz from a most unusual locality! Such pieces, so rich and colorful, are VERY rare for the Swiss alps. This crystal is complete and presents nicely from the display face, though rough on the back faces and broken on the bottom. Obviously, we can remove the strahler's ink labelling if desired...
ex. New York State Museum
ex. Richard Hauck
A strange duo where the quartz crystal continued interrupted growth, but that interruption let a permanent barrier set up between the two portions of the crystal and so instead of a phantom, we have a detached "cap" that sits upon the original matrix and earlier crystal growth. REALLY WEIRD things, these! I have seen these bizarre "russian doll" quartzes before only from a few historic samples. Most are big and clunky. This one is actually, as far as they go, rather elegant and a good size for a collection. Comes with a New York State Museum label denoting its origin from the G.F. Kunz collection (early 1900s).
ex. Richard Hauck
A gorgeous specimen with an antique Ward's Science Establishment label dating it to pre-WWI in the early 1900s(per the Mineralogical Record label archives). Ward's was an active buyer at the time, but an even older (unidentified, calligraphy) label glued to the back indicates this may date to the earliest days of copper camp mining in Arizona. However, the pedigree aside, its just an incredible specimen with eye appeal due to the startling contrast of the (8mm) primary malachite crystals to the blue quartz underneath. It was, in Hauck's collection, a stunning blue quartz representative...but its more than a mere quartz in my book!
ex. Arthur Montgomery
ex. Richard Hauck
A striking, 3-dimensional specimen of quartz featuring 2 generations. The first is the quartz that forms the central rectangle, having replaced an original barite crystal with a solid plate of quartz through pseudomorphing the barite. Later, another generation of quartz grew atop, spraying out in all directions. The overall result is super-elegant and flashy, and very unusual. It is amazing it has survived in such good condition (only one tiny missing crystal out of all!). Said to have been found by the legendary field collector Arthur Montgomery, according to Hauck.
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