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Hematite-included Quartz
- Orange River, Northern Cape Province, South Africa
- Miniature, 4.8 x 3.7 x 2.8 cm
- Start Time: 03/22/2013 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 03/28/2013 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
Beautiful, glassy, quartz crystals with striking, brick-red, hematite inclusions and phantoms form a spectacular and aesthetic, arborescent miniature from recent finds in South Africa. Most impressive, on this two-sided piece, is that the matrix is a bed of glassy, terminated quartz crystals. Nearly pristine, the large included quartz has just a bit of trivial bruising. The sculptural quality of this cutie is very fine.