A HISTORIC, OLD-TIME and showy specimen from the famous Galena District of Illinois. This is a very nearly pristine, slightly curved, FLOATER cluster of lustrous, intergrown galena cubes. The Galena District furnished much of the lead for the North during the American Civil War, 1861-1865. Accompanied by an old handwritten label in French. Ex. Paris Museum of Natural History and George Feist Collections.