Calcite

Item Description

A wonderfully showy and aesthetic Calcite specimen from Artigas, Uruguay featuring a 6.7 cm, sharp, lustrous, translucent, white/colorless scalenohedral group of Calcite flaring off of a matrix coated by smaller Calcites of equal quality. The main Calcite group is in great shape, and most of the smaller ones are undamaged, but one of the larger secondary Calcites is contacted on one end. Overall, it's a very impressive and eye-catching example of these famous old Calcites from these historic basalt deposits. The piece From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#27 U), a well-known German collector all over Europe with worldwide contacts to dealers and collectors. He started collecting seriously at the age of 14 and his great and varied worldwide collection reached over 6000 pieces. He was very active mineralogically until shortly before his passing in 2020 at the age of 82. Considering his collection had a large number of pieces, it still had an unusually high standard of quality from most worldwide localities. He particularly specialized in all classics as well as minerals of the Black Forest, where he spent much time collecting. His Black Forest and German subcollections went to his good friend Wolfgang Wendel. We at The Arkenstone have the privilege of offering the remainder of this great worldwide collection over the next two to three years through our various platforms.