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Kermesite (Type Locality) and Quartz
- Neue Hoffnung Gottes Mine, Braunsdorf, Erzgebirge, Saxony, Germany
- Miniature, 5.0 x 4.3 x 3.7 cm
- Start Time: 11/28/2009 6:30:00 pm (CST)
- End Time: 12/03/2009 6:30:00 pm (CST)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
A great German classic from the 1800s. Radiating sprays of flat-lying, highly lustrous, acicular, deep wine-red kermesite crystals to about 9 mm line a quartz-lined vug in matrix from the historic, old German Type Locality - the Neue Hoffnung Gottes Mine of Saxony. Comes with an expertly handwritten, faded label from an older collection. The collection this came out of was a museum stash dating to prior to World War I.