Panczner Thumbnail Collection Mineral Auction - ends March 18, 2021

We are honored to present the second of a series of SPECIAL COLLECTION AUCTIONS direct to the internet, to start the new year on a high note for minerals! This auction features worldwide Selections and old classics from the thumbnail Collection of Bill and Sharon Panczner (the TN suite was assembled mostly in the 1960s through the 1980s). Bill was curator of the Arizona Desert Museum and author of the still-definitive book MINERALS OF MEXICO (1987) and numerous other articles and books. Look for an amazing mix of rare and classic, historic mineral specimens that have literally been locked in boxes since the early 1990s, shown HERE for the first time!  Highlights:

1. IMPORTANT COMPETITIVE THUMBNAILS from their 1960s exhibition case

2. SIGNIFICANT  SEMSEYITE specimen

3. Uncommon old English TORBERNITE

4. Africa TORBERNITE

5. TOURMALINES and a very fine KONGSBERG MATRIX SILVER !

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Ramsdellite
Mistake Mine, Yavapai County, Arizona, USA
2.8 x 2.6 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $97
Paravauxite
Llallagua, Rafael Bustillo Province, Potosi Dept., Bolivia
2.5 x 1.4 x 0.5 cm
Winning Bid: $160
Metatorbernite - old classic
Gunnislake Mine, Cornwall, England
1.9 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm
Winning Bid: $230
Tourmaline (with gemstone) circa 1900
Newry, Oxford County, Maine, USA
2 x 0.6 x 0.5cm
Winning Bid: $160
Wulfenite with Vanadinite (rare combination)
Old Yuma Mine, Tucson Mountains, Pima Co., Arizona, USA
2.1 x 1.5 x 1.0 cm
Winning Bid: $199
Acanthite
Rayas Mine, Guanajuato, Mexico
1.8 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm
Winning Bid: $67
Azurite on matrix
Tsumeb,Namibia
2.3 x 2.0 x 1.5 cm
Winning Bid: $207
Tourmaline
Santa Rosa Mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil
2.9 x 1.1 x 1cm
Winning Bid: $329
Silver
Batopilas Mine, Chihuahua,Mexico
2.4 x 1.5 x 1.4 cm
Winning Bid: $93
Malachite ps. after Azurite
Tsumeb, Namibia
2.2 x 1.2 x 1 cm
Winning Bid: $100
Malachite After Cuprite (complete floater)
Chessy, near Lyon, France
1.2 x 0.8 x 0.8 cm
Winning Bid: $334
Cerussite (var. Chrome)
Magnet Mine, Magnet, Waratah district, Tasmania, Australia
2.7 x 2.0 x 1.9cm
Winning Bid: $100
Pyromorphite
Bunker Hill Mine, Kellogg, Shoshone Co.,Idaho, USA
2.9 x 2 x 1.5 cm
Winning Bid: $241
Rhodonite
Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia
1.6 x 1.4 x 1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $70
Azurite (USA classic loc.)
New Cornelia Mine, Ajo, Pima Co., Arizona, USA
2.8 x 1.7 x 1.6 cm
Winning Bid: $200
Silver with Calcite
Kongsberg, Buskerud, Norway
2.1 x 1.0 x 0.8 cm
Winning Bid: $350
Chrysocolla ps. After Selenite
Ray mine, near Kearny, Pinal County, Arizona, USA
3.1 x 0.9 x 0.9cm
Winning Bid: $333
Metatorbernite
Musonoi Mine, Katanga, Democratic Republic of Congo
3.1 x 2.5 x 2 cm
Winning Bid: $505
Boleite on Anglesite
Amelia Mine, Santa Rosalia, Baja California, Mexico
1.9 x 1.3 x1.2 cm
Winning Bid: $242
Millerite - rare locale
Ollie, Keokuk Co., Iowa, USA
3.1 x 1.1 x 0.6cm
Winning Bid: $232
Hematite on Quartz
Cavradi, Switzerland
2.9 x 2.5 x 1.5 cm
Winning Bid: $234
Rutile (twinned) on Goethite
Graves Mountain, Lincoln Co., Georgia, USA
2.8 x 2.3 x 2.1cm
Winning Bid: $625
Semseyite on Quartz
Herja, Baia Sprie, Maramures County, Romania
2.5 x 2.3 x 2.1 cm
Winning Bid: $343
Topaz - large gem xl
Maynard Claim, Thomas Range, Juab Co., Utah, USA
3.6 x 2 x 1.7 cm
Winning Bid: $925
Natrolite
Blackhead Quarry, Dunedin City, Otago Region, New Zealand
3.1 x 1.9 x 1.8 cm
Winning Bid: $314