A very colorful, highly lustrous cluster of rhodonite with a small bit of attached matrix atop, this is an excellent specimen for the price because it has color, sharp form, and overall would have been a worldbeater from Broken Hill in any case. It is just a bit short on height compared to width, but if you sit it on a shelf and backlight, the upside is that the whole length glows with a deep vibrant cherry color and it has a beter transparency for the size than others here, due to all that width for light to go through. In person, the lustre on this one is also among the best of the lot, bordering on metallic in shimmer.

A large, robust, fat crystal with incredible lustre to its front faces, and translucent to transparent especially in its top half (not shown well in the photo, sorry). The piece is large and colorful, and is relatively lower-priced than others because of damage, unseen form this angle, to the rear-left of the termination and a cleave on the left hand side facing away. Still, its a piece that dominates a case visually and looks like a far more expensive specimen, I would say. The color here is so deep , its hard to show the gemminess in the top half in our closeup.

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