Fluorite

Item Description

This specimen is marked as coming from "Wuxiu" in Jiangxi, China in Kurt's collection catalogue, but it's a small typo, and should be listed from Wuxi. With that said, I've never seen another Fluorite labeled from this locality, so it may not be 100% accurate. Several very gemmy, soft silvery-lilac colored modified crystals of Fluorite measuring up to 2.3 cm across, are sitting on a bit of grey Quartz matrix to create a very showy and three-dimensional display specimen. No real damage that I can find on the front/display side, and even the back and bottom are in great shape. A rare locality piece, very elegant in its own right, and certainly different from most you'll find from China.
From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#421 Ch though it's actually #422 in the collection catalogue), 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.