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16edd23a - Malachite pseudo. after Copper, with Wulfenite - $ 6000 SOLD Tsumeb, Namibia cabinet, 9.6 x 7.9 x 5.0 cm ex. Dr. Edward David ex. Marshall Sussman
How many malachite pseudos have we seen form Tsumeb? hundreds? thousands? and almost all after Azurite, too. This one features malachite of velvety nature having completely replaced intricate fans of crystallized copper! It has superb aesthetics, and is even complete on both sides! At one time this was in the Marshall and Charlotte Sussman Collection. Ed obtained it from Stuart Wilensky in 1998, Ed always felt this to be a littl emore unique than other Tsumeb malachites he had owned over the years. If in doubt that it was from Tsumeb at all,the wulfenites prove the point!
22edd91n - Wulfenite - $ 3500 SOLD Helena Mine, Mies, Schwarzenbach, Slovenia, former Yugoslavia small cabinet, 8.6 x 5.7 x 5.0 cm ex. Dr. Edward David ex. Helmut Bruckner ex. Wilhelm Leithauser
This is a special specimen for several reasons. Firstly, it is a beautiful piece from an old and historic locality; with large crystal size and intense color for the locale. It is also actually an older specimen of far higher in quality than anything found recently on the old mine dumps here. Secondly, it has a unique crystal habit, with the modified edges you can see so clearly. Finally, most specimens from here feature crystals jumbled together in a solid mass. THIS ONE has the rare quality of individual crystals, perched on the matrix. I had not seen equal quality , for my tastes, for sale back in 2001 when I sold this to Ed out of the WH Leithauser Collection, and I still haven't seen a better one for sale. Comes with custom base.
3D68 - Wulfenite - $ 225 Gleason Mine, Kofa District, Yuma County, Arizona, USA thumbnail, 2.7 x 2.4 x .7 cm ex. Marilyn Dodge
Gorgeous cluster of lustrous orange-yellow Wulfies, all growing out from a central sliver of matrix. The largest crystal has two pieces broken off near the base, but it is deceptively inconsequential because of the overall aesthetics and visual impact of the specimen above.
3D76 - Wulfenite - $ 350 Red Cloud Mine, Yuma County, Arizona, USA thumbnail, 1.6 x 1.4 x .4 cm ex. Marilyn Dodge
Classic Red Cloud, right down to the superb luster and gorgeous translucent orange color. This is almost certainly, from teh fatness and juicyness of the thick crysatl, a piece from the old Ed Over finds of the 1940s. ‘Nuf said!
4JA11 - Wulfenite - $ 95 SOLD 79 Mine, Gila Co., Arizona, USA thumbnail, 1.3 x 1.2 x .4 cm
Fine beveled crystal with good color and good to excellent luster. This is a well-known classic locality, but wulfenites are rare from here. Tiny almost insignificant edge wear
4JA13 - Wulfenite - $ 95 SOLD San Francisco Mine, Magdalena, Sonora, Mexico thumbnail, 2.6 x 2 x 2 cm
Excellent cluster of super-lustrous yellow wulfies from a great locality. One edge is slightly chattered, but still a definite keeper, much better than most thumbs you see from here and very much more colorful in person as well. This one is from the classic finds of mimetite-associations, found in the mid-late 1970's
AZMEX25 - Wulfenite (world class miniature!) - $ 5200 SOLD Red Cloud Mine, La Paz County, Arizona, USA miniature, 4.6 x 2.8 x 1.8 cm ex. Martin Zinn
Aesthetically perched on a sliver of rhyolite matrix is a superb, gemmy, highly lustrous, reddish-orange, wulfenite crystal, measuring 2.5 cm across. This was from the small "barlow pocket" discovery in 1996 by Bruce Barlow and associates. The color and quality of this specimen approaches those from the famous Ed Over pocket in 1938. Only a handful of specimens were found, of which this is certainly among the best . It is elegant, by any useage of that word! Without a doubt, this is a competition miniature!
AZMEX29 - Wulfenite - $ 125 SOLD D & H Claim, Banner District, Gila County, Arizona, USA thumbnail, 1.7 x 1.4 x 0.2 cm
RARE LOCALITY PIECE! This is a pristine, floater specimen of lustrous, translucent, yellow-orange color. It exhibits superb tetragonal crystallography. From Evan Jones.
CAR-45 - Wulfenite - $ 2500 SOLD Stevenson-Bennett Mine, Dona Ana County, New Mexico, USA cabinet, 17.0 x 9.5 x 6.0 cm ex. Andrew Carnegie
Here we have a SOLID SPECIMEN OF 100% pure wulfenite, with a large vug in the middle containing freestanding crystals to just under an inch. Damage to the major crystals is minimal - considering the size and age it is in remarkable shape. This specimen is an amazingly rich and large piece from what became in later days the Stevenson-Bennett Mine but in Carnegie's time was simply a series of small exploratory adits in an interesting locality. The location was never very productive, and although small pockets have trickled out from time to time over th elast century, this would still be considered an extraordinarily rich specimen - it likely came from the most prolific upper oxidation layers of the deposit, anyhow. Though labelled as Arizona in his catalogue, knowledgeable Arizona collectors with whom I consulted are unanimous that the specimen is actually from "over the hill" in this New Mexico location. It is clearly visible in the righthand case, second shelf down, as the middle specimen on that shelf.
CKTSU-04 - Wulfenite on Dolomite - $ 6500 Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia small cabinet, 6.6 X 5.5 X 4.9 cm ex. Charlie Key
This is an important specimen with lustrous and translucent, tabular wulfenite crystals of a unique, electric orange-golden-flecked hue, to 2.5 cm across. The shockingly lustrous, translucent to transparent wulfenites are aesthetically perched on sparkling, ivory colored dolomite. Only the slightest bruising on a few crystal edges, and one small contact on the upper-right of the major crystal, is evident as a minor detraction on an otherwise world-class wulfenite specimen that is still a superb piece by any normal standard. Wulfenite of this quality, with fat translucent crystals of this size and lustre, is almost unheard of from Tsumeb. Few will ever hit the market of this calibre when you take the size of the crystals and the size of the matrix into account. The last major piece of this style (probably the same pocket) that I am aware of came out to market from the Sussman collection in 2003, has since been on a Min Record cover; and resold for over double my initial selling price of 50k at the time. The total last bit of perfection isn't quite here, but its close; and both the overall impact and the significance certainly are present.
CKTSU-62 - Wulfenite on Dolomite - $ 9000 SOLD Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia small cabinet, 7.4 x 5.0 x 4.7 cm ex. Charlie Key
Tsumeb is not known for fine wulfenites, with teh exception of a VERY few specimens - of which I would class this one. The crystal is almost an inch across, about 2.2 cm. It is TRANSLUCENT and gemmy and lustrous, and it is remarkably almost freestanding , hanging out from a stalk of sparkly dolomitic matrix. The crystal is complete, and pristine save for a very minor, tiny ding, to 1 crystal edge, which does not affect the overall beauty of the specimen and in fact is hard to see anyhow. This is, to my mind, a major Tsumeb piece that is one of the few which can hold its own with wulfenite from other localities, but is all the more significant for being from this classic mine.
CKTSU-63 - Wulfenite - $ 2500 Tsumeb mine, Tsumeb, Namibia miniature, 3.4 x 3.3 x 2.6 cm ex. Charlie Key
A shockingly fat and well-formed, almost freestanding large crystal dominates this piece. The major crystal is 2.5 cm tall, 2 cm wide, and 6 mm thick...very robust and unusual for Tsumeb. It is nearly pristine save for the most minute of dings, and sits perfectly on a natural perch of smaller wulfenite crystals. When backlit, it has a rich ruddy-brown color to it, and you can see even in normal lighting here it is translucent. For the loclaity, a significant specimen, I would say.
D06-135 - Wulfenite - $ 2500 Toussit Mine, Atlas Mountains, Morocco cabinet, 16.1 x 12.1 x 4.7 cm ex. Tom and Mellissa Gressman
A rare, huge plate, featuring butterscotch-colored, platy crystals to over an inch in size! This old material is incredibly hard to obtain in any sizeable specimen, and nothing like it has been found here in 20 years or more. The crystals combine two syles. Some are very sharp squared blades with beveled edges, as you see with Arizona wulfenite for example. The other style are large, flanged crystals with irregular edges, that look more organic than anything, and reach 3 cm in size. The juxtaposition of the two styles is striking!
D06-144 - Wulfenite - $ 12500 SOLD Red Cloud Mine, Yuma Co., Arizona, USA cabinet, 10.4 x 10.1 x 4.8 cm
This is simply an aberration. I have never seen so much red cloud wulfenite crowded onto one rock before, and so this just GLOWS with intense color. The color is RED, not orange , but the juiciest red you could want form the mine (most modern wulfenite has a more orange-nuanced hue to it). There are several crystals to an INCH in size here, elegantly rising on the top of the specimen. There is no damage to the top and most dramatic row of crystals, although there is in the middle of the piece a contacted 3-cm crystal growing vertically and another large damaged crystal facing out a tthe viewer on edge (and so visually minimized in both cases); and some matrix contacts along the lower half where the crystals contacted the pocket wall. Still, given the overall juiciness and size significance of the specimen, it seems a shame to trim the bottom half off to miimize these contacts, since the top is so pristine and intact, and the size itself lends significance. I , rather, like the size and overall visual impact you get from such a large Red Cloud specimen. There could not be more than a few others ever on the market in this size range, with so much coverage to them. I am told it was perhaps collected from a freak pocket in the 1960s. It certainly was not recently fro meither of the 1990s mining projects here, and it could even be an old Ed Over specimen from the 1940s. Regardless, the locality is now DONE with and no more will be found. This will remain an impactful and important cabinet piece, I would think.
D06-97 - Wulfenite - $ 1250 SOLD Los Lamentos, Chihuahua, Mexico small cabinet, 7.6 x 5.3 x 2.8 cm
Gorgeous , intensely colored crystals to 1.7 cm make this specimen a visually impressive piece, with lots of color. The lustre is tops, naturally wet and waxy-looking! There is only the most trivial peripheral damage to this old classic, likely from the 1960s or 1970s. It is hard to get them in such quality today!
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