Calcite (rare locality)

Item Description

A gorgeous and showy Calcite specimen from the Dodo Mine featuring a group of attractive, somewhat compressed rhombic crystals with a gentle silvery hue and moderate translucency, along with a slight amount of a pale golden color due to some inclusions of micro Pyrite. The piece is nearly a "floater", as it's crystallized almost all the way around, and I can't find any damage anywhere with the naked eye, save minor imperfections on the base. A unique, eye-catching and certainly incredibly hard to find locality specimen that would make a fine addition to any Calcite suite.
From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#350 Ru), 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 coming months and years through our various platforms.