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Fluorite on Feldspar (ex Kay Robertson Collection)
- Kunar Province, Afghanistan
- Miniature, 3.7 x 3.2 x 1.2 cm
- Start Time: 02/14/2019 6:45:00 pm (CST)
- End Time: 02/21/2019 6:45:00 pm (CST)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
Not your typical Apatite specimen from Afghanistan. Typically, we're used to seeing purple crystals from places like Dara-i-Pech, but this piece was simply labeled as coming from the Kunar Province, and truly doesn't resemble anything we've seen before. This piece hosts a group of sharp, well-formed, lustrous, prismatic, Fluorapatite crystals measuring 2.2 cm sittiong on white Feldpsar matrix. The Apatites show a bit of a bi-color appearance with a soft yellowish-green hue at each end and a pinkish-lilac hue in the middle. The piece has excellent aesthetics and presents beautifully as you can see from the photos. Ex Kay Robertson Collection (#9287). 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).
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