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"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)
- Auction Closed
- Winning Bid: $215
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) |
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