Grossular

Item Description

An attractive plate of fine quality Grossular crystals measuring up to 1.0 cm across, from the well-known Garnet Hill Mine. The crystals have a saturated orange-red hue with excellent reflective luster and well-defined dodecahedral faces along with what appears to be modifying octahedral faces. There are crystals on both sides of the piece, and the largest crystal is actually on the back side of the specimen. The crystals are fairly gemmy with good backlighting, and most of them are undamaged.
Ex George Loud Collection No. 370A CA.1; 1308 George (born August 16, 1942) is a well-known mineral collector from Washington, DC and South Carolina respectively, and was a patent lawyer by trade for over 50 years. He assembled one of the great mineral collections in the U.S., comprising worldwide specimens, and in later years he sold the worldwide specimens to focus on minerals of the United States, specifically locality suites with an emphasis on amazing representation of species while still maintaining fine quality. The specimens remarkably range from micros to all the way up to large cabinets in size. We recently acquired most of his impressive 9000+ piece collection, and the VAST majority of these pieces will be offered here in the auctions, as we feel that everyone deserves and equal opportunity at acquiring these important, well-documented and fine quality specimens for their collections.
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