Special Auction: Specimens from the Jack Halpern & Sean Lincoln Collections - Ends July 14, 2022

A special auction set with minerals directly released from the collections of some of our old friends. We are especially honored to be able to help deaccession so many fine specimens from the Jack Halpern collection so that they can go to new homes with other collectors. In fact, Jack specifically asked me to send them all around the world, as long as we promise to leave all of his labels on specimens - and preserve his paper labels as well, as they go to new homes. He said to pass on his philosophy, "Beauty is the food I live on, and I hope these will nourish others as they have nourished me well in my long, lucky life." Look here for amazing specimens, many from old finds, from the collections of Jack Halpern and Sean Lincoln; and a single 1900s-era tourmaline from tourmaline collector Michael Garced.

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Rhodochrosite (Halpern Coll.) - rare twinned form
Poudrette quarry, Mont Saint-Hilaire, Quebec, Canada
5.1 x 3.3 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $1,050
Dioptase on Calcite (Halpern Coll.)
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Oshikoto Region, Namibia
3.9 x 2.8 x 1.4 cm
Winning Bid: $582
Vesuvianite (Halpern Coll.)
Jeffrey Mine, Val-des-Sources, Estrie, Québec, Canada
4.2 x 3.9 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $410
Tourmaline with Lepidolite (Halpern Coll.)
Paprok, Kamdesh Dist., Nuristan, Afghanistan
8.1 x 1.6 x 1.5 cm
Winning Bid: $1,112
Bismuth (synthetic) (Halpern Coll.)
Germany
5.9 x 5.3 x 3.8 cm
Winning Bid: $50
Gypsum (Halpern Coll.)
Salinas de Otuma, Otuma village, Paracas Dist., Pisco Prov., Ica, Peru
4.7 x 4.3 x 3.6 cm
Winning Bid: $600
Pyrargyrite (Halpern Coll.)
Guanajuato, Guanajuato Mun., Guanajuato, Mexico
3.5 x 2.7 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $310
Adamite (Halpern Coll.) with strong Fluorescence
Ojuela Mine, Mapimí, Mapimí Mun., Durango, Mexico
4.6 x 4.2 x 1.3 cm
Winning Bid: $1,300
Calcite and Chalcedony (Lincoln Coll.)
Jalgaon Dist., Nashik Division, Maharashtra, India
7.6 x 7.1 x 3.9 cm
Winning Bid: $225
Green Fluorite (Lincoln Coll.)
Riemvasmaak, Kakamas, Northern Cape, South Africa
6.0 x 6.0 x 4.4 cm
Winning Bid: $410
Fluorite on Quartz (Lincoln Coll.)
Bingham, Socorro County, New Mexico
15.5 x 13.6 x 11.5 cm
Winning Bid: $220
Cavansite - large cluster (Halpern Coll.)
Wagholi Quarries, Wagholi, Pune Dist., Maharashtra, India
3.6 x 2.9 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $575
superb, rare Wavellite on Quartz (Halpern Coll.)
Siglo XX Mine, Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo Prov., Potosí, Bolivia
3.5 x 3.4 x 2.0 cm
Winning Bid: $925
Elbaite (Halpern Coll.)
Paprok, Kamdesh Dist., Nuristan, Afghanistan
4.4 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm
Winning Bid: $675
Hemimorphite and Cerussite ex Halpern.
Mfouati Mine, Mfouati, Bouenza , Republic of the Congo
10.4 x 5.2 x 4.0 cm
Winning Bid: $1,649
Calcite on Galena (Lincoln Coll.)
Gibraltar Mine, Naica, Chihuahua, Mexico
6.0 x 5.8 x 3.9 cm
Winning Bid: $100
historic Tourmaline (Mined by Loren Merrill, early 1900s)
Mount Mica Mine, Paris, Maine
9.0 x 3.7 x 2.0 cm
Winning Bid: $4,050
Galena and Calcite (Halpern Coll.)
Nikolai Mine, Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia
5.7 x 5.3 x 2.6 cm
Winning Bid: $500
Indicolite on Cleavelandite
Dara-e-Pech Dist., Kunar, Afghanistan
7.4 x 6.9 x 4.9 cm
Winning Bid: $2,001
phantom Fluorite (Lincoln Coll.)
Diamond Pocket, C pit, Okorusu Mine, Otjiwarongo, Namibia
10.2 x 5.8 x 1.6 cm
Winning Bid: $701
Neptunite (Perkin & Halpern Coll.)
California State Gem Mine, Santa Rita Peak, San Benito Co., California, USA
13.5 x 6.1 x 5.3 cm
Winning Bid: $1,250
large, unusual Beryl (Lemanski Coll.)
Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
12.2 x 11.3 x 8.0 cm
Winning Bid: $725
Rubellite Tourmaline (classic 1978 discovery, ex Halpern Coll.)
Jonas mine, Conselheiro Pena, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2.6 x 0.8 x 0.7 cm
Winning Bid: $675
Fluorite (Lincoln Coll.)
Denton Mine, Harris Creek Mining Sub-Dist., Hardin Co., Illinois, USA
8.9 x 6.2 x 4.6 cm
Winning Bid: $601
gem Emeralds on Calcite (Lincoln Coll.)
Coscuez Mine, Boyaca, Colombia
3.2 x 1.8 x 1.5 cm
Winning Bid: $3,605