Perovskite (Cassirer and Belsky Coll.)

Item Description

Perovskite is an uncommon titanium oxide and this excellent Italian specimen features a large, 8 x 6 mm, highly lustrous, pseudocubic, metallic gray perovskite crystal aesthetically set on starkly contrasting snow-white milky quartz and serpentinite. This fine specimen is from a classic locality - Malenco Valley. This is an old, significant example from this famous locality. Ex Fred Cassirer Collection # 1711 and Howard Belsky Collection and comes with a Fred and Claude Cassirer label, dating the piece to prior to 1978, when Fred died. Fred was a world-renowned dealer/collector. Valued $400-500 for large crystal size and locality.