Fluorite (ex Willard Wulff Collection)

Blanchard Mine, Bingham, Hansonburg District, Socorro County, New Mexico
Small Cabinet, 6.3 x 4.9 x 4.7 cm
Start Time: 09/22/2016 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 10/02/2016 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
Auction Closed

Item Description

This specimen comes from the collection of Willard W. Wulff (1904-1998) of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a prominent figure and collector of Colorado minerals. Wulff was one of the founding members of the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society in 1936. You can read Willard's bio on the Mineralogical Record website here ( http://www.minrec.org/labels.asp?colid=1528 ). The piece comes with a typed label from Wulff on one of his famous 3x5 index cards that states the piece was acquired from Pardo's Rocks and Minerals in Tucson, Arizona. This is a cool display piece of sharp, gemmy, well-formed, rich blue color cubic crystals of Fluorite measuring up to 1.0 cm on matrix. It's not 100% perfect, but it's still an attractive, great old time specimen from this noteworthy collection.

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