Copper

Bisbee, Warren District, Mule Mts, Cochise County, Arizona
Toenail, 3.4 x 1.6 x 0.8 cm
Start Time: 12/08/2016 6:45:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 12/15/2016 6:45:00 pm (CST)
Auction Closed

Item Description

An old-time, unusual, and uncommon copper specimen from Bisbee. Seldom do you see solid, floater, crystallized Bisbee copper pieces with bubbly, botryoidal form and such a pretty patina. One side of hte piece has beautiful arborescent crystallization and is almost completely botryoidal on the back. Some of the redder patina is cuprite-coated. The piece probably dates back to around the 1950s.

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