Cinnabar on Dolomite (ex Franceso Bedogne Collection)

Item Description

Brilliant, scintillating, incredibly well-formed, smooth, lustrous, razor sharp, rich fiery red color crystals of Cinnabar sit aesthetically on pearly white rhombic Dolomite crystals on matrix. The largest Cinnabar measures 1.2 cm, and the main cluster of crystals looks undmaged with the naked eye, I could find a small imperfection with a loupe. Such fine quality for the species, and really beautiful in person. If you collect Chinese minerals or worldwide Cinnabars, this is a piece worth picking up. Great aesthetics and quality and certainly from older material in the 1980s. From the worldwide collection of famed Italian mineral collector, field collector and author, Francesco Bedogne of Sondrio, Italy (Collection #1428). Bedogne wrote dozens of articles and several books about the mineralogy of Italian Alpine localities such as Val Bregaglia, Val Masino, Val Codera, Val Spluga, Valtellina and the famous Val Malenco. He was also the founder of the Valtellinese Mineralogical Institute.