This weird specimen of intergrown crystals seems to be a legitimate beta-quartz crystal habit, at least that is what it looks like! However it is not, for some technical reasons. They are pretty rare these old New York things. It has half a dozen interconnected crystals of sharp habit, that look like beta quartz I have seen from Dalnegorsk. Minute inclusions are probably hematite. Ugly but interesting...Label on back is from Neal Yedlin collection.