Calcite "Cave Pearls" (classic locale)

Item Description

A showy, OLD-TIME specimen of calcite "cave pearls" or pisolites from a CLASSIC Czech locale - Carlsbad (Karlovy Vary), Bohemia. Pisolites are spheroidal, concentric concretions of calcium carbonate. Comes with an expertly handwritten, faded label from an older collection. The collection this came out of was a museum stash dating to prior to World War I.