large, twinned Cerussite

Item Description

This is a large and heavy, glassy, gemmy to translucent Tsumeb Cerussite specimen! It is old material, certainly from the 1950s or earlier. This monster has a weight of 759 grams or 1.67 pounds! It is almost four inches across and nicely twinned on a dramatic scale! It is textbook in form with an off-white color and super adamantine luster. If you want a prime, large example of Cerussite from Tsumeb this is it! It will command attention in any display of prominent specimens, Tsumeb or otherwise! This glassy, very gemmy crystal twin is composed of five individual component crystals, and is an incomplete sixling only by how it formed. It has a lovely faint smoky hue to the off-white color. The crystal is complete with only very minor bruising a single point of attachment and a couple of small pockets into the crystal that contain micro Duftite inclusion. All of the component crystals are terminated! Erika Pohl was a strong collector already by the 1950s and this is one of over 100,000 specimens that were curated by the early 2000s. This dates the piece to the very earliest workings in the middle levels of Tsumeb, or it could even be an older specimen from the early 1900s era. In any case, it formed her early core of Tsumeb specimens, which was to become a lifelong pursuit over 60 years (ending at over 10,000 Tsumeb pieces in the collection). Valued $6500-7500.