Fluorite ex Hefendehl

Item Description

What a gorgeous La Viesca Mine Fluorite with with numerous purple and blue zoned cubes! This Fluorite specimen has great presence and balance with its numerous, sharp-edged cubes that display rich purple phantoms on the interior that exhibit a dark purple rim and then a 5 mm thick, medium blue exterior zone that contains a single, 1 mm thick dark blue zone, just stunning. The Fluorite cubes are all completely transparent and have a slightly satiny luster. Very subtle growth hillocks on the faces provide added interest. The largest crystal is 3.3 cm on edge and the others range between 0.6 to 2.3 cm across and all of the corners are pristine! They are all so transparent you can look directly into the cubes and see all the phantoms well. Fluorites from here are some of the most distinctive worldwide. An old classic! Kurt Hefendehl was a well-known collector in the mineral world all over Europe with worldwide contacts to dealers and collectors. He started collecting seriously at the age of 14 in about 1952; and his great and varied worldwide collection reached a number of 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 collection over the next two to three years through our various platforms.