FINE MINERAL COLLECTION AUCTIONS featuring historic Minerals - Ends May 20, 2021

This week we strived to give you another random mix of species, locations, and historic oddities, but especially emphasizing interesting locality classics and California treasures mostly from the lifelong collections of Dr. Bob Reynolds, long the curator at the San Bernardino County Museum; and Bill Larson (longtime owner of the Himalaya mine and a famous San Diego collector). So many items in these collections we simply never see on the market today – and yet here they are, up for auction! Nobody has picked over our stock during COVID, and these are NOT show leftovers, but are being released FIRST to the internet as with the majority of both collections.

Also included here are some very special prizes being deaccessioned from friends’ collections, including what are certainly $5-10,000 specimens of Rhodochrosite, Malachite, Cerussite, and Tourmaline up for auction at No Reserve  

Highlights:

 1. Large old WULFENITE from the Hilltop Mine

2. TOURMALINES including SAN DIEGO GEMS!

3. PYROMORPHITES from rare localities

4. Old Michigan SILVER-COPPER halfbreed

5. AQUAMARINE from a NEW FIND

6. SUPERB TSUMEB CERUSSITE AND MALACHITE SPECIMENS!

7. NEW FIND of YTRROFLUORITE on CALCITE from China

8. RHODOCHROSITE !