old classic , Azurite rose (circa 1900) ex Panczner Coll.

Item Description

A STUNNINGLY colored, classic, two-tone blue azurite rosette thumbnail from the famed mines at Bisbee, of the most famous and iconic style for an American azurite, and from the best locality...Bisbee, circa turn of teh 1900s at its heyday. This cutie has extemely stout well-defined "petals" for the size, and somehow the color is just "more interesting" than the usual monocolor tone. It stands out - as a stunning thumbnail from a sophisticated and well known collection exhibited widely in the 1960s. Complete all-around and pristine, with only a bit of attached matrix on the back, it is essentially a floater. Ex Bill and Sharon Panczner Thumbnail Collection. Bill was the first Curator of Earth Science at the Arizona Sonora Desert Museum in 1974 and the author of the 1987 book Minerals of Mexico. It is the most thorough summary of the subject. Read about Bill in the Mineralogical Record Biographical Archive at: https://mineralogicalrecord.com/labels.asp?colid=841. This is not just an exceptional Bisbee azurite rosette thumbnail, it is a competitive thumbnail specimen of the highest quality and is simply shocking in person. Valued HIGHLY. If you see it, you'd say the same. It leaps out.