Agate (ex Willard Wulff Collection)

Item Description

A beautifully polished piece of Agate from Brazil featuring a crystal-line vug in the center with excellent exterior banding a beautiful translucent outer "rind". The colors range from lilac, lavender and beige tones The piece also fluoresces under UV light. This specimen comes from the collection of Willard W. Wulff (1904-1998) of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a prominent figure and collector of Colorado minerals. Wulff was one of the founding members of the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society in 1936. You can read Willard's bio on the Mineralogical Record website here ( http://www.minrec.org/labels.asp?colid=1528 ). The piece comes with a typed label from Wulff on one of his famous 3x5 index cards.