Celestine (RARE old Texas!) Kay Robertson Coll.

Item Description

Celestine is EXTREMELY RARE from this obscure locality in Brown County. MINDAT lists 28 localities in Brown County for celestine, but only one photo is shown! This is a rich and showy old-time two-sided specimen in limestone matrix. Pretty, very glassy, sharp, rose-pink prisms fill a striking vug in the front and two smaller vugs on the back. Texas is well-known as a mineral wasteland, excepting the Llano Uplift, Terlingua, exotic species from salt domes and a few celestine localities. This very fine old rarity is Kay Robertson Collection # 770. The low collection number dates the piece to the 1950 or older. She started collecting in the 1920s. Kay is a prominent California collector, who specialized in European classics (see the article in the March-April, 2007 Mineralogical Record). A MUST for the Texas or species collector.