SPECIAL DENVER EVENT: LARGE GEMSTONE & CABINET SPECIMEN LIQUIDATION AUCTIONS - end Sept. 22, 2016

Ends Sept. 22, 2016
at 6:30 PM (Central Time Zone)

note: THESE SPECIMENS WILL SHIP AND BILL SEPARATELY
FROM OUR OTHER AUCTIONS, EARLY NEXT WEEK


Unlike most of our auctions, which are pooling specimens from multiple sources and huge collection buyouts, this one is featuring two lots that we decided to auction rather than to take to Denver to liquidate for the owners to dealers:

1) CABINET 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!

2) A small group of a half dozen LARGE GEMSTONES !
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RUTILATED QUARTZ (1175 carats! )
Novo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
8.8 x 7.8 x 3.5 cm
Beryl var. Aquamarine "towers"
Shengus area, Gilgit, NWFP, Pakistan
7.5 x 8.7 x 5.7 cm
Mimetite (large plate circa 2000!)
Pingtouling Mine, Liannan Co., Guangdong Prov., China
19.5 x 12.5 x 4.3 cm
Barite (large!)
Cerro Warihuyn, Miraflores, Huanuco Dept., Peru
17.2 x 9.5 x 8.3 cm
Silver var. Kongsbergite
Corta Sta. Matilde, Las Herrerias, Almeria, Spain
18.0 x 13.3 x 8.7 cm
Wulfenite on Mimetite (1970s)
San Francisco Mine, Sonora, Mexico
4.4 x 4.2 x 2.9 cm
Orpiment
Palomo Mine, Castrovirreyna, Huancavelica, Peru
8.8 x 7.0 x 3.5 cm
Calcite (fluorescent)
Irai, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
16.8 x 12.5 x 8.3 cm
Gypsum (ram's horn)
Touissit, Oujda-Angad Province, Morocco
13.0 x 12.7 x 7.5 cm
Calcite (fluorescent)
Irai, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
25.0 x 19.0 x 18.5 cm
Marcasite - huge decor specimen
Lubin District, Legnica, Lower Silesia, Poland
24.6 x 21.2 x 6.8 cm
very large Agate slice with Quartz crystals
Irai, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
38.5 x 33.0 x 0.9 cm
Golden Barite (very large!)
Cavnic area, Maramures Co., Romania
27.5 x 16.8 x 11.5 cm
Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Quartz
Boldut Mine, Maramures Co., Romania
25.0 x 15.7 x 9.5 cm
Halite - Important 5-pound single crystal
Wieliczka Mine, Wieliczka, Malopolskie, Poland
14.0 x 10.0 x 10.0 cm
Quartz - magnificent large elestial sceptre
Diamantina, Minas Gerais, Brazil
26.5 x 14.0 x 9.5 cm
Gypsum var. Selenite
Red River Floodway, near Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
10.2 x 10.2 x 8.3 cm
ROSE QUARTZ cabochon
Minas Gerais, Brazil
3.3 x 2.5 x 1.6 cm
Quartz ps. after Anhydrite
Irai, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
14.5 x 12.5 x 6.5 cm
SMOKY QUARTZ (1895 carats)
Minas Gerais, Brazil
10.5 x 7.7 x 4.5 cm
Mimetite (1997 find)
Hat Yai, Songkhla Province, Thailand
12.5 x 10.5 x 5.3 cm
Calcite (fluorescent) on Quartz
Cavnic Mine, Maramures Co., Romania
10.4 x 10.0 x 6.3 cm
Datolite (old classic locale)
Bor Mine, Dalnegorsk, Siberia, Russia
16.0 x 14.2 x 7.6 cm