Pre-Denver Show Specials! FINE MINERAL LIQUIDATION AUCTION (set 2 of 2) - end September 8th, 2016

Ends September 8th, 2016
at 6:45 PM (Central Time Zone)

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT: NEW COLLECTION ACQUIRED!

We are excited to announce that we have purchased the collection of Willard W. Wulff (1904-1998) of Colorado Springs, Colorado. Wulff was a fixture in the world of Colorado field collecting, and was one of the founding members of Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society in November of 1936. His contemporaries included dealer Lazard Cahn, famous field collector Edwin Over and the esteemed collector George White. Starting this week, the majority of Wulff's 1000+ piece collection will be offered over the coming months in the auctions. Most specimens are accompanied with Wulff's signature typed 3x5 index cards, and some specimens date back over 70 years! A great "time capsule" of a collection with plenty of interesting, unique and worthwhile specimens to add to your own collection.

We found a link for an autobiography that Wulff wrote in 1985 on the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society website. Click here to read it.

Some of the highlights from this week's include:
1. A beautiful multi-color GEM quality Tourmaline thumbnail from Brazil
2. Cabinet sized old time, gemmy baby blue Halite specimen from New Mexico
3. A good sized, nearly 2-inch green Vesuvianite from the Jeffrey Mine in Canada
4. Razor sharp Calcite pseudomorph after Gypsum from Romania
5. GEM quality intense yellow Sulfur from Russia
6. Rarely seen GOLD specimen from Sterling Hill, New Jersey!
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Tourmaline (ex Willard Wulff Collection)
Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Doce valley, Minas Gerais, Brazil
1.8 x 1.7 x 1.6 cm
Pyrite (ex Willard Wulff Collection)
Ambas Aguas, Muro de Aguas, La Rioja, Spain
1.3 x 1.3 x 1.2 cm
Pyrite "Sun" (ex Willard Wulff Collection)
Sparta, Randolph County, Illinois
4.9 x 4.2 x 0.3 cm
Halite (ex Willard Wulff Collection)
Carlsbad Potash District, Eddy and Lea Counties, New Mexico
11.1 x 11.1 x 6.6 cm
Rhodochrosite (ex Ladislav Turecky Collection)
Banska Stiavnica, Banska Stiavnica Co., Banska Bystrica Region, Slovakia
10.3 x 6.3 x 4.8 cm
Copper
Ray Mine, Scott Mountain area, Mineral Creek District, Dripping Spring Mts, Pinal County, Arizona
5.1 x 4.6 x 1.1 cm
Cassiterite
Viloco mine, Loayza Province, La Paz Department, Bolivia
2.6 x 2.6 x 2.1 cm
Microcline (var: Amazonite)
near Lake George, Park County, Colorado
3.0 x 1.9 x 1.6 cm
Calcite (GEM quality twin)
Wuzhou Prefecture, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, China
2.9 x 2.6 x 1.6 cm
Pyrite (ex Allen Penick Collection)
Barger Quarry, Rockbridge County, Virginia
4.7 x 3.8 x 3.6 cm
Meyerhofferite pseudomorph after Inyoite (ex Willard Wulff Collection) (Collected by Ed Over)
Monte Blanco Mine, Black Mts, Amargosa Range, Inyo County, California
5.6 x 4.3 x 3.7 cm
Prehnite (ex Brian Kosnar Collection)
Millington Quarry, Bernards Township, Somerset County, New Jersey
5.8 x 1.7 x 1.5 cm
Goethite (great quality)
Dreamtime Mine, Crystal Peak area, Teller County, Colorado
5.3 x 4.6 x 2.1 cm
Quartz ("Faden")
Tole (Tui), Wana, South Waziristan, Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA), Pakistan
3.7 x 2.3 x 0.4 cm
Calcite (rare locale)
Macy Mine, Percha Creek, Hillsboro, Hillsboro District, Sierra County, New Mexico
4.7 x 3.7 x 3.4 cm
Vanadinite
Mibladen, Midelt, Khenifra Province, Meknes-Tafilalet Region, Morocco
3.5 x 3.3 x 1.6 cm
Barite
Stoneham, Weld County, Colorado
3.3 x 2.2 x 0.6 cm
Beryl (var: Heliodor)
Bin Thuan Province, Vietnam
1.6 x 0.3 x 0.2 cm
Petrified Wood
Madagascar
5.4 x 3.1 x 1.3 cm
Sulfur (GEM quality)
Vodinskoe deposit, Samaraskaya Oblast', Povolzhsky Region, Russia
3.7 x 3.3 x 2.8 cm
Linarite (ex Richard A. Kosnar Collection)
Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico
5.0 x 4.2 x 3.1 cm
Gold (rare locale) (ex Richard Kosnar and Pat Gross Collections)
Sterling Mine, Sterling Hill, Ogdensburg, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey
0.8 x 0.7 x 0.6 cm
Datolite (var Botryolite) with Axinite-(Mn) (ex Richard Kosnar and Pat Gross Collections)
Parker Shaft, Franklin, Franklin Mining District, Sussex County, New Jersey
1.2 x 0.7 x 0.5 cm and 1.0 x 0.9 x 0.8 cm
Cylindrite (rare)
Poopo town, Poopo Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia
3.5 x 3.2 x 2.3 cm
Klebelsbergite
Kremnica (Kremnitz), Ziar nad Hronom Co., Banska Bystrica Region, Slovakia
3.5 x 2.6 x 1.6 cm
Franckeite with Berthierite
San Jose Mine, Cercado Province, Oruro Department, Bolivia
3.6 x 2.3 x 1.1 cm
Colemanite
Boron, Kramer District, Kern County, California
7.3 x 4.3 x 4.2 cm
Muscovite ("Window") (ex Willard Wulff Collection) (Collected by Ed Over)
near Little Fountain Creek, El Paso County, Colorado
5.2 x 4.4 x 0.1 cm
Plumbojarosite (rare) (ex Josef Vajdak)
Anna Mine, Brezove Hory (Birkenberg), Pribram, Central Bohemia Region, Bohemia, Czech Republic
6.7 x 4.2 x 2.6 cm
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