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Anorthite and Aragonite (old - classic locale) ex Philadephia Acad. Coll.
- Naxos Island, Cyclade Islands, Aegean Islands Dept., Greece
- Small Cabinet, 7.3 x 6.5 x 5.8 cm
- Start Time: 11/05/2009 6:30:00 pm (CST)
- End Time: 11/12/2009 6:45:00 pm (CST)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
Mineral specimens are rare indeed from the ancient emery mines at Naxos Island, Greece, mined for emery by the Classical Greeks. The vuggy matrix is probably metabauxite. A really pretty, 1.7 cm radial, starburst-like spray of lustrous, colorless, aragonite prisms rests above a euhedral, glassy, tabular, 1.3 cm, partially coated anorthite crystal. This old-timer certainly dates to the 19th Century and is from the famed Philadelphia Academy of Sciences Collection.