Almandine Garnet

Item Description

A good sized and desirable single trapezohedral crystal from the Ishikawa District in the Fukushima Prefecture of Japan with well-formed faces, and a dark reddish-brown color on the surface. The piece is largely complete, though not a total "floater", as it has a bit of incomplete growth on the back. If you're a Garnet collector, or you're a fan of crystal morphology, this is a good quality specimen of this elusive material. Ex Fred Parker and Dick Hauck collections, originally sold by Scott Williams.
Ex George Loud Collection No. 6642; 51.4.3a.2 JA.1 George (born August 16, 1942) is a well-known mineral collector from Washington, DC and South Carolina respectively, and was a patent lawyer by trade for over 50 years. He assembled one of the great mineral collections in the U.S., comprising worldwide specimens, and in later years he sold the worldwide specimens to focus on minerals of the United States, specifically locality suites with an emphasis on amazing representation of species while still maintaining fine quality. The specimens remarkably range from micros to all the way up to large cabinets in size. We recently acquired most of his impressive 9000+ piece collection, and the VAST majority of these pieces will be offered here in the auctions, as we feel that everyone deserves and equal opportunity at acquiring these important, well-documented and fine quality specimens for their collections.
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