Datolite (rare blue color) (ex Kurt Hefendehl Collection)

Item Description

Dalnegorsk is one of the great specimens producers in the last few decades. This locality had provided collectors with a slew of fine quality crystallized display specimens, including what are arguably the best Datolites ever found. Typically, Datolite crystals are green or yellow, but a small amount of these specimens featuring rarely seen BLUE crystals! This piece is a fantastic cabinet display specimen featuring superb, sharp, lustrous, gemmy, soft blue colored monoclinic crystals measuring up to 4.2 cm associated with milky white Quartz prisms. The main crystal on the specimen is the focal point of the piece, and it's in excellent condition, with no damage on the front/display side, though there is a slight indentation on the back where it was probably growing against the pocket wall. A stellar example of this older (this piece probably dates back to the 1990s) material, seldom seen in today's market. Priced in the inventory at $2,000. From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl, a well-known German collector all over Europe with worldwide contacts to dealers and collectors. He started collecting seriously at the age of 14 and his great and varied worldwide collection reached over 6000 pieces. He was very active mineralogically until shortly before his passing in 2020 at the age of 82. Considering his collection had a large number of pieces, it still had an unusually high standard of quality from most worldwide localities. He particularly specialized in all classics as well as minerals of the Black Forest, where he spent much time collecting. His Black Forest and German subcollections went to his good friend Wolfgang Wendel. We at The Arkenstone have the privilege of offering the remainder of this great worldwide collection over the next two to three years through our various platforms.