Calcite (old material) (ex Ferguson)

Item Description

A wonderful old time specimen of the classic pieces of Calcite from the famous region in Germany. This specimen hosts sharp, translucent, yellow to white rhombic scalenohedra of Calcite on matrix. This piece dates to the collection of Sir Robert Ferguson (1769-1840). He was a member of Parliament and the landed nobility from Fife, Scotland (he had stopped collecting by 1810). This piece came to us in 1998 from a single drawer of pieces recovered in the Ferguson family estate, specimen #408.