Anatase on Smoky Quartz (Hansen, Smithsonian and Oslo Univ. Coll.)

Item Description

A STUNNING, complete all-around and PRISTINE, water-clear, smoky quartz crystal studded with lustrous anatase crystals to 9 mm from Hardangervidda, Norway. The anatase crystals are embedded both on and within the uncommon for the locality, smoky. This is a SUPERB and AESHTETIC anatase and smoky quartz specimen. It is certainly one of the best, and almost certainly, one of the very few pristine anatase on smoky quartz, that we have offered at auction from the lot we obtained from Dr. Gary Hansen. Dr. Hansen obtained this piece in a small lot trade with the Smithsonian, who in turn traded with the Geology Museum at the University of Oslo. This was a pretty expensive piece in the late 1970s or early 1980s, as the Hansen label testifies. Current value is surely double to triple that amount. RARELY available in this quality on today's market. NOTE ABOUT SIZE - this is a large thumbnail or, stood upright, a small miniature.