Special Collection Liquidation Auction - ends June 7 at 6:30 PM

ENDS ON TUESDAY JUNE 7
at 6:30PM (Central Time Zone)
NOTE SPECIAL ENDING DAY ON TUESDAY ...

Unlike most of our auctions, which are pooling specimens from multiple sources and huge collection buyouts, this one is featuring only specimens from one longtime Spanish friend and collector who is thinning down his collection for a retirement move, and offered them up for auction (against my own opinion that he might get more selling them one by one over time, retail!). His feeling was that the money they yield doesn't matter, because this was the best way to move them all without "heartbreak" from selling one by one after he spent 40 years acquiring them. I hope we can show him how they go to good new homes! This will be the 2nd of several such auctions we can give you of these fine, generally larger specimens at value prices to all.
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Tourmaline ex. Bill Larson Coll.
Himalaya Mine, Pala, San Diego Co., California
7.4 x 1.5 x 1.5 cm
intense natural Blue Topaz with Lepidolite
Itinga, Minas Gerais, Brazil
6.0 x 4.3 x 3.5 cm
Stilbite on Basalt
Jalgaon, Maharashtra, India
18.4 x 12.8 x 9.0 cm
Barite (rare locale)
near Santander, Spain
16.0 x 14.0 x 9.6 cm
Tourmaline with Lepidolite
Paprok, Nuristan, Kunar Province, Afghanistan
5.0 x 4.4 x 3.3 cm
Gem Beryl var. Aquamarine on Cleavelandite
Shigar, Skardu Valley, Baltistan, Pakistan
7.4 x 6.0 x 5.9 cm
Tourmaline on Cleavelandite
Paprok, Nuristanm Kunar Province, Afghanistan
5.5 x 5.5 x 6.0 cm
Quartz (red)
Teruel, Aragon, Spain
8.4 x 5.0 x 3.0 cm
Vivianite on drusy Pyrite
Huanuni mine, Huanuni, Dalence, Oruro, Bolivia
4.8 x 2.4 x 2.1 cm
Calcite on Calcite
Cave Growth, Southern Spain
8.9 x 4.0 x 3.4 cm
Anglesite on Galena
Touissit Mine, S. of Ouijda, Morocco
4 x 3.0 x 1.9 cm
Microcline var. Amazonite (important locality crystal!)
Santa Maria de Itabira mine, Minas Gerais, Brazil
19.9 x 14.8 x 8.4 cm
Calcite (large & old classic!)
Tsumeb Mine, Tsumeb, Namibia
13.9 x 10.1 x 8.8 cm
Malachite (polished)
Kolwezi area, Democratic Republic of Congo
30.3 x 18.4 x 6.0 cm
Quartz ("Herkimer Diamond")
Ace of Diamonds Mine, Middleville, New York
10.0 x 10.0 x 4.9 cm
Erythrite (large plate!)
Aghbar Mine, Bou Azzer, Morocco
10.9 x 9.9 x 3.4 cm
Barite with Goethite coating
La Union Mine, Murcia, Spain
7.8 x 6.4 x 4.0 cm
Quartz and Hubnerite
Huayllapon Mine, Pasto Bueno, Ancash Department, Peru
16.1 x 15.1 x 7.4 cm
Topaz on Albite with Quartz
Dassu, Haramosh Mtns., Gilgit, Pakistan
15.9 x 9.4 x 6.4 cm
Crocoite (old, robust style)
Adelaide Mine, Dundas, Tasmania, Australia
11.8 x 6.1 x 5.8 cm
Barite on Limonite
La Union Mine, Murcia, Spain
19.9 x 13.8 x 9.1 cm
Beryl var. Aquamarine on Muscovite
Nagar, Aliabad, Hunza Valley, Pakistan
13.4 x 9.9 x 7.4 cm
Limonite pseudomorph after Pyrite
Malaga, Carratraca, Andalusia, Spain
5.5 x 3.8 x 2.4 cm
Topaz on Albite (superb!)
Dassu, Haramosh Mtns., Gilgit, Pakistan
6.9 x 6.8 x 6.8 cm
Vivianite on Sandstone (rare large specimen!)
Tomokoni Mine, Colavi, Machacamarca, Potosi, Bolivia
14.9 x 9.9 x 4.9 cm