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Grossular Garnet and Vesuvianite (R. Whitmore Coll.)
- Lake Jaco, Sierra de la Cruz, Coahuila, Mexico
- Miniature, 5.0 x 4.4 x 1.8 cm
- Start Time: 01/21/2010 6:30:00 pm (CST)
- End Time: 01/28/2010 6:33:33 pm (CST)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
A beautiful, 1.4 cm, translucent, raspberry-red, compound, grossular garnet is very aesthetically set on the matrix plate and is surrounded by smaller garnets and lustrous, translucent, tannish-yellow, vesuvianite crystals on this showy and excellent piece from the mid-1990s finds at the well-known Lake Jaco deposit of Mexico. Classic combo material from the Robert Whitmore Collection # 3832. now rare, valued $300-400