Orthoclase with Aegirine

Item Description

An attractive association specimen from the famed Mount Malosa locality in Malawi featuring a predominant, sharp, well-formed, soft silvery-grey colored blocky prismatic crystal of Orthoclase measuring 4.3 cm, associated with several additional smaller Orthoclase crystals of equal quality, with muted greenish-black colored prismatic crystals of Aegirine. Showy, no damage and a classic combo from what is the most well-known locality in the country of Malawi.
From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#3 MW), a well-known German collector all over Europe with worldwide contacts to dealers and collectors. He started collecting seriously at the age of 14 and his great and varied worldwide collection reached over 6000 pieces. He was very active mineralogically until shortly before his passing in 2020 at the age of 82. Considering his collection had a large number of pieces, it still had an unusually high standard of quality from most worldwide localities. He particularly specialized in all classics as well as minerals of the Black Forest, where he spent much time collecting. His Black Forest and German subcollections went to his good friend Wolfgang Wendel. We at The Arkenstone have the privilege of offering the remainder of this great worldwide collection over the next two to three years through our various platforms.