Aquamarine (ex Bob Reynolds Collection)

Item Description

When it comes to Aquamarine, some of the finest, world-class specimens have been found in the various pegmatite localities in Pakistan, which has been the most productive country for specimens in the last 30+ years. Most people associate Pakistani Aquas with the area around Gilgit. This attractive and showy small cabinet piece features a group of sharp, glassy, gemmy, soft blue color, hexagonal prismatic crystals of Aquamarine which are associated with beautiful bladed groups of silvery Muscovite. Each of the Aquamarine crystals show excellent basal terminations, and if you flip the piece over, you'll see the underside of the largest crystal is also terminated, making it a doubly-terminated crystals. No major damage anywhere outside of the base of the piece, where it detached from the pocket wall. Classic material from Pakistan. This piece is priced at $1,850 in our inventory. From the collection of Robert (Bob) Reynolds (#RR0166) who passed in August of 2020. Bob was a well-known fossil and mineral expert and former Curator of Earth Sciences at the San Bernardino County Museum in California. The rare phyllomanganate-chromate species Reynoldsite was named in his honor in 2011.