Fluorite on Quartz

Item Description

Here we have a wonderful, showy, three-dimensinoal cabinet sized specimen from Chongyi Co., Ganzhou, Jiangxi, China featuring attractive intergrown groups of cubic Fluorite with a very pleasing greenish-blue color, and good internal gemminess/translucency, measuring up to 1.7 cm on edge, aesthetically sitting atop a matrix of GEM/gemmy, colorless, prismatic Quartz crystals. The piece is in great shape all around, with no major damage that I can find. I would put this one in the range of about $2,000-$2,500 if I had it out for sale at show. From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#853 C), 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. WWe at The Arkenstone have the privilege of offering the remainder of this great worldwide collection over the coming months and years through our various platforms.