Calcite scepter w/ phantom (Clyde Hardin Coll.)

Item Description

This fine, sceptered calcite specimen from Villabona, Spain looks just like a classic, old-time specimen of sceptered calcite from the Blackstone Mine, Shullsburg, Wisconsin. The three-sided, translucent, gray scalenohedron is abundantly overgrown with lustrous 1 mm - 2.0 cm rhombohedral calcites in parallel stair-stepped growth. The scalenohedron is capped by an amber, translucent and lustrous 3.7 cm complex rhombohedral calcite crystal. You can faintly see the termination phantom of the scalenohedron inside the rhomb. Both the scalenohedron and rhomb are preferentially frosted with drusy calcite on one side. Complete all-around and nearly pristine, with only trivial bruising to the scalenohedron and rhomb. A choice sceptered calcite specimen from the Clyde Hardin Collection.