Creedite (rich color) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)

Item Description

Creedite from this famous district came out in abundance only briefly in the early to mid-1980s. These crystals are a very deep shade of a purple-lavender hue. Some similar specimens came out of Kazakhstan in the 1990s, but were generally paler in color. This one is a really attractive overall miniature with good sharp, lustrous, gemmy crystals in the center of the piece. It's obviously contacted around the periphery, but still a nice representation of this now hard to find amterial. When you consider how rare purple minerals are, you have to take notice when one of these older Creedites comes out on the market. Ex Kay Robertson Collection (#6106). Kay is a prominent California collector, who specialized in European classics (see the article in the March-April, 2007 Mineralogical Record and the 50+ page article in the German Magazine "Mineralien Welt" November-December 2017).