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23edd27e - Topaz with Hematite - $ 2500 Topaz Mountain, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, USA miniature, 4.6 x 4.4 x 1.6 cm ex. Dr. Edward David
A complete floater with GEMMY , glassy lustre and superb form! All tips are pristine, and it has a sparkle in person not coneyed in the pictures. The minute inclusions of metallic hematite throw off specks of light, an dcontrast, that are interesting and accent the sherry topaz color. An older specimen from this classic locale!
27D - Topaz - $ 2100 SOLD Topaz Mountain, Thomas Range, Juab County, Utah, USA miniature, 4.7 x 4.1 x 3.6 cm ex. Dr. Edward David ex. John Holfert
Emerging dramatically from a matrix of gray rhyolite is a cluster of elongated topaz crystals, to 4.2 cm in length. The crystals become much gemmier near their terminations, which are a rich sherry color with great luster. This is definitely one of the nicer clusters I have seen recently from this famous deposit. In fact, it is a well-known piece given the nickname "The Wad" by Ryan Bowling when he collected it, and it is photographed for the book on Utah Topaz put out by the partnership that ran this mine for some time. Overall, a superb 3-dimensional cluster of unusual richness...seldom do you find so many gemmy crystals in aggregation.
282A - Bixbyite with Topaz - $ 2400 Topaz Mountains, Juab County, Utah, USA miniature, 5.0 x 4.6 x 2.8 cm ex. Dr. Edward David
A contrasting rhyolite matrix is the host for an unusual combo specimen. Splendent, jet-black crystals of bixbyite to 1.5 cm across are associated with gemmy, sherry-colored topaz crystals to 1.2 cm in length. This is one of the more desirable combinations from the Thomas Range. Seldom do you see so much bixbyite on one specimen, though, and with topaz as an association to boot!
4JG46 - Topaz with Feldspar - $ 300 SOLD Dassu, Gilgit, Northern Areas, Pakistan thumbnail, 2.7 x 2.2 x 1.5 cm
Fantastic topaz thumbnail!: the topaz itself is gem-clear, sharp, and terminated; and it has a very light amber color that adds just a tiny bit more character to an already great specimen. Even better, this Topaz is attached to a terrific feldspar that is so sharp and lustrous that it is a good specimen in and of itself and perfectly balances the topaz for size and basic geometry. This is a killer thumbnail in every way. It was my first-choice pick for sheer style, if not the most expensive rock, from Scott Werschky's thumbnail collection some years ago and I was able to trade it from Scott at that time and sell it to this collector.
AP13 - Apatite on Ferberite with Topaz - $ 850 SOLD Panasqueira, Portugal miniature, 6.1 x 4.5 x 3.3 cm
This material, I am told, came from one pocket in the late 1970s. I have seen only 3 specimens for sale out there. All 3 i have seen feature very unusual wheat-sheaf-like apatite crystals of a pastel yellow hue, in association with ferberite. More interestingly, they also have small 1-3 mm crystals of faintly blue topaz in association, as this one does scatterred about on the ferberites! This is an excelleent example of a rare association!
BixTop - TN 1081 - Bixbyite on Topaz - SOLD Thomas Range, Juab Co., Utah, USA thumbnail, 3.1 x 2.2 x 1.7 cm
ch31 - Topaz with Albite - $ 6500 SOLD Maple Lode Mine, San Diego County, California, USA small cabinet, 6.6 x 5.1 x 3.8 cm ex. Chuck Houser
A complete, equant, oddly terminated topaz that is extremely blue for a San Diego topaz! Mined by Roland Reed, this is the finest topaz Chuck or I or Bill Larson have seen from the mine. It is also completely verifiable as Maple Lode and not Little Three Mine (aside from the odd form), as it was mined personally by Mr. Reed , and not from earlier finds here. Very significant!
ch36 - Topaz on Cleavelandite - $ 22500 SOLD Little 3 Mine, Ramona, San Diego County, California, USA small cabinet, 8.5 x 7 x 6 cm ex. Chuck Houser ex. Jesse Fisher and Joan Kureczka ex. Louis Spaulding
This is a piece I have always thought to be Chuck's treasure, the most fine by overall standards outside County, for the species. It is a MATRIX, DOUBLY-TERMINATED, GEMMY, blue topaz! The piece is totally pristine save for a small crack partway down the sides, revealing where a very tight repair has been made. It is extremely aesthetic, and an important example of topaz from San Diego, said by Bill Larson to be one of the top three such matrix crystals known along with his own specimen and one sold to the Smithsonian in the 1970s. The style of the crystallized matrix marks it as unlike anything from Brazil which might compete with it, and proves it to be San Diego despite the unusual quality. This piece had never been fully prepped and cleaned until now, despite being collected 30 years ago by the mine owner, Louis Spalding; who sold it to Cal Graeber, who sold it to Jesse Fisher and Joan Kureczka in whose collection it resided for many years before it ended up with Chuck.
CK69 - Topaz - SOLD Little Three Mine, Ramona, San Diego Co., California, USA miniature, 3.8 x 3.5 x 3.3 cm ex. Chris Korpi
A classic example of the extremely desirable gem blue topaz crystals which came out of the Little 3 Mine mostly prior to 1960 when it was owned by Louis Spaulding Sr. Complete all around and with a pleasing ice-blue color, this one is a winner of a mini!
CKTSR-22 - ILMENITE on SMOKY QUARTZ, with Ferberite and Topaz - $ 4000 SOLD Erongo Mountains, Namibia small cabinet, 7 x 6 x 4 cm ex. Charlie Key
A somewhat more elegant but less massive specimen featuring, this time, an ilmenite perched ON the smokies instead of vice versa. This specimen ALSO HOSTS, in the middle zone of sparkling brown you see there, ferberite and a small 8 mm topaz as well as probably other species that are micros. It is extremely aesthetic, overall, for what it is...and the crystal is complete around the upper termination and sides around to the back face
D05-71 - Topaz - $ 145 SOLD Sprunger Claim, Thomas Range, Utah, USA thumbnail, 2.9 x 1.1 x 0.6 cm
A magnificent crystal of unusually deep color and bright gemminess! This quality is from older finds, not recent.
D05-72 - Topaz - $ 275 SOLD Sprunger Claim, Thomas Range, Utah, USA miniature, 4 x 1 x 0.7 cm
A magnificent crystal of unusually deep color and bright gemminess! UNUSUAL IN THE SIZE of the crystal , and unrepaired! This quality is from older finds, not recent.
D06-170 - Topaz - $ 9500 SOLD Dassu, Gilgit, Pakistan cabinet, 12.0 x 10.2 x 10.0 cm (WEIGHT: 1970 gra
Well, I think the pics and text above convey its HUGE. what they do not convey is the quality...this topaz is among the biggest single crystals that I know of, from this part of the world. It is simply a MONSTER. The termination is broad and dramatic, and perfect. There were a few very minor chips on the leading edges of the piece, that I have had restored with epoxy so they would not detract (i.e. very minor restoration), but not on the termination itself. The piece is so dramatic and important, I did not mind a little bit of work on it, given the price was accordingly adjusted (which I feel it has been because I bought it cheap over there to begin with). The color is a rich amber hue, a little deeper than the usual color perhaps because of a volumetric effect. THIS CRYSTAL IS REALLY GEMMY IN PERSON, more so than the pics indicate! It really will impress!
D06-215 - Topaz on Cleavelandite - $ 1500 SOLD Dassu, Haramosh Mts., Gilgit District, Northern Areas, Pakistan small cabinet, 8.6 x 5.9 x 5.4 cm
> Nestled in a matrix of snow white albite and quartz crystals is a 3.5 cm-plus jewel-like crystal of transparent, cognac colored, topaz. The transparency and color along with the matrix are just about as good as can be found in Pakistan. It is really breathtaking, in person, and a great piece at a fair price for such quality in a matrix gem topaz.
D06-216 - Topaz on Cleavelandite - $ 450 Dassu, Haramosh Mts., Gilgit District, Northern Areas, Pakistan small cabinet, 7.7 x 6.2 x 5.0 cm
This is another fine specimen of beautiful white albite hosting a transparent, cognac-colored topaz crystal that sticks through the matrix another cm and appears in the bottom. The crystal measures 2.25 cm in length above the matrix.
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