"Poker chip" Calcite xls (old classic - fluorescent) Kidwell Coll.

Charcas, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Small Cabinet, 8.0 x 7.2 x 5.3 cm
Start Time: 02/24/2022 7:00:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 03/03/2022 6:40:00 pm (CST)
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Winning Bid: $215
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Item Description

Classic Charcas, Mexico hexagonal "poker chip" calcite crystals on this sculptural small cabinet. The parallel-growth glassy to waxy lustre tabular graduated-in-size prisms enhance the aesthetic quality of piece. Very interesting pink to muted pink to no fluorescence. Ex Art Kidwell Collection and acquired at the Tucson Show in 1973 during the Golden Years of Mexican mineral specimen production. From the worldwide mineral collection of Albert Lewis Kidwell (January 1, 1919 - August 16, 2008). Al was a well-known mineral collector and research geologist with Carter Oil Company and later Exxon Oil Company in Houston, Texas. The phosphate species Kidwellite was named in his honor in 1974. A fine older Mexican classic calcite.

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Bidding History

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$215 03/03/2022 6:33:13 pm (CST)
$205 03/03/2022 6:29:24 pm (CST)
$199 03/03/2022 6:29:23 pm (CST)
$195 03/03/2022 6:22:30 pm (CST)
$185 03/03/2022 6:18:37 pm (CST)
$175 * 03/03/2022 6:18:16 pm (CST)
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$165 03/03/2022 10:50:29 am (CST)
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$115 03/03/2022 10:31:19 am (CST)
$105 03/01/2022 11:44:56 pm (CST)
$95 03/01/2022 11:39:51 pm (CST)
$85 02/25/2022 4:31:06 pm (CST)
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$60 02/25/2022 4:30:45 pm (CST)
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$45 02/25/2022 4:30:24 pm (CST)
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$35 02/25/2022 4:30:13 pm (CST)
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$20 02/25/2022 1:09:20 pm (CST)
$15 02/25/2022 9:43:19 am (CST)
$10 02/24/2022 7:52:25 pm (CST)
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