Gypsum ("Selenite") (ex Willard Wulff Collection)

Item Description

This specimen comes from the collection of Willard W. Wulff (1904-1998) of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a prominent figure and collector of Colorado minerals. Wulff was one of the founding members of the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society in 1936. You can read Willard's bio on the Mineralogical Record website here ( http://www.minrec.org/labels.asp?colid=1528 ). The piece comes with a typed label from Wulff on one of his famous 3x5 index cards that states the piece was acquired from Pardo's Rocks and Minerals in Tucson, Arizona, and also says that it was more of a pink color when it was first collected. This is a cool display piece featuring a "floater" group of very sharp, lustrous, well-formed, compressed crystals of Gypsum ("Selenite") forming a beautiful semi-"rosette". The piece is in great shape overall, and I can't find any damage, nor a point of attachment. The label says it's from Baja, California, but I'm sure it's from Guerrero Negro, Baja California Sur, Mexico. An attractive, great old time specimen from this noteworthy collection.