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Amethyst
- Amatitlan, Guerrero, Mexico
- Cabinet, 11.0 x 6.0 x 3.0 cm
- Start Time: 01/30/2012 6:45:00 pm (CST)
- End Time: 02/09/2012 6:30:00 pm (CST)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
This is a classic style of Guerrero amethyst, with snow white tips grown over grape-juice colored cores. The contrast is striking, unusual, and nearly unique to this location in terms of drama (it happens at Brandberg, too). This particular piece is really 3-dimensional, with the spray of smaller crystals diverging out from base. The effect is striking in person. The large crystal tip has very trivial bruising and there is a major, mostly clean repair to the entire piece below the mid-section. There are a couple of broken crystal tips and a bit of chipping here, but they have modest impact to the overall display quality of this impactful, good-sized piece. The snow white tips really make this a special and dramatic specimen. Material like this hasn't been dug up in decades, and is hard to find today on the market.