Azurite on matrix

Item Description

It would be hard to find a better Tsumeb azurite thumbnail for the style - it has sharp shape, color saturation, high luster, and a beautiful balance on matrix. With strong backlighting, it has a glowing blue color within. It is complete all around and is nearly pristine : it has only a few tiny rubs to it, very very small. Everything you can ask in a competitive azurite thumbnail specimen! From the award-winning thumbnail collection of Sharon and William Panczner, author of the book Minerals Of Mexico, and last seen and exhibited in the 1960s and recently rediscovered. Bill told me that this was one of the pieces saved for them directly by Charlie Key himself, from one of his many Tsumeb acquisitions.