This is the first of two superb, sharp, lustrous specimens of antique pyrite from the famous French Creek Mining area,. Both are from the collection of ER Chadbourn, early 1900s, through Phil Scalisi's collection rife with US classics, and recently belonging to another US East Coast collector. This piece is dramatic and shows a curving and graceful cluster of pyrites stacked upon a small bit of matrix; and it looks like pyrite from no other locality I can think of. It is pristine and shows no sign of decrepitating "pyrite disease."