Agate (ex Willard Wulff Collection)

Item Description

A beautiful gemmy Agate with an "Oval" cabochon cut from an unknown locality in Montana. The stone has small bands of dark brownish Agate set against a translucent colorless / white background. The gem comes from the collection of Willard W. Wulff Sr. (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 ). Later in Wulff's life, he took an affinity to cutting cabochons, and this particular stone was in fact cut and polished by Wulff himself.