Aquamarine (ex Francesco Bedogne Collection)

Item Description

A beautiful GEM quality, prismatic, very sharp, lustrous, soft blue color hexagonal crystal of Aquamarine mearuing 6.9 cm long which is beautifully associated with silvery Muscovite and stark white Albite crystals. The upper portion of the Aqua is WATER CLEAR, while it's more translucent at the base. Very aesthetic and good quality compared to many Aquamarines on the market from Pakistan today. From the worldwide collection of famed Italian mineral collector, field collector and author, Francesco Bedogne of Sondrio, Italy (Collection #1160). Bedogne wrote dozens of articles and several books about the mineralogy of Italian Alpine localities such as Val Bregaglia, Val Masino, Val Codera, Val Spluga, Valtellina and the famous Val Malenco. He was also the founder of the Valtellinese Mineralogical Institute.