Almandine (ex Willard Wulff Collection)

Item Description

The Sedalia Mine was a former copper-gold-silver producer, but it's best known for its Almandine crystals. This is actually a Dana locality, and has produced what are arguably the best known Garnets from Colorado. This is a good sized Almandine with sharp textbook dodecahedral form. It's a complete most of the way around with only a tiny bit of damage and a small point of attachment. It has this pretty "patina" look to it from a thin covering of mica that accents the deep reddish-bronze color of the crystal itself. This piece 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 one of the famous 3x5 index cards that states the specimen was personally collected by Wulff himself.