Fluorite octahedron (classic locale) Robertson Coll.

Zinggenstocke, Grimsel area, Hasli Valley, Bern, Switzerland
Miniature, 4.5 x 4.1 x 2.4 cm
Start Time: 06/09/2019 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 06/13/2019 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

A classic, gemmy, pink, 2.8 x 2.6 cm doubly terminated compound fluorite octahedron with a partial gneiss coating is aesthetically set on the front of the sculptural wedge of gneiss matrix on this showy and excellent miniature from this well-known Swiss locale, famous for superb smoky quartz specimens. Ex Kay Robertson Collection # 3375 and acquired from Scott Williams in the mid-1960s. 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). Purple fluorescence.

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