Calcite (beautiful color)

Item Description

A wonderful cabinet sized display specimen from the Juchem Quarry, near Idar-Oberstein, Germany featuring fine, sharp, lustrous, translucent, scalenohedral Calcite crystals which range in color from a soft creamy orange color to a fiery orange-red hue on matrix. The color and quality are as good as anything I've seen from this locality. The large Calcite on the front lower edge of the specimen measure 3.8 cm. The piece is in superb condition, with no major damage to the central crystals. A very impressive and fine quality example of these German classics. Valued at $1,800. From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#408 D), 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.