A very showy, very unusual Mibladen vanadinite on baryte specimen from the finds of the late 1970s and early 1980s. The matrix of solid, snow-white baryte has been severely etched, leaving connected and isolated, upright, 3-dimensional fronds of classic Mibladen, iron oxide-coated baryte blades. The whole specimen, including the bottom, is richly covered with lustrous, tabular, brick-red, vanadinite crystals. I have never seen a Mibladen vanadinite on baryte with this very unusual etching and form before. Ex. Robert Fender Collection. Classic material.