Goshenite with Aquamarine on Albite

Item Description

This is an unusual beryl specimen that defies easy color classification. It is in majority a goshenite (colorless) beryl, I am tempted to say. But often colorless beryls are exactly that - colorless, bland. This is white, a ghostly-white that is actually beautiful and elegant. The stark, freestanding crystal is complete all around, 3.5 cm tall, and textbook shaped. It has a pastel blue cap at the termination, for the faintest bit of color that also serves to accentuate how ghostly white the rest of the crystal really is. This is the kind of unusual combination piece, that Gene prided himself in acquiring - things different than others, giving the collection an unusual breadth showcasing what came out of Afghanistan and Pakistan from the 1980s through today. The Meieran collection was built to encompass so many varieties of shape and color, of his favorite species - beryl! An unusual piece, hard to describe, and hard to value.