Prehnite (ex Willard Wulff Collection)

Item Description

The famous Prospect Park Quarry is one of the most impressive (and under appreciated) Zeolite localities in the world. This quarry has produced some amazing specimens in the last 100 years. This specimen is an old piece, dating back around 50 years which features beautiful, lustrous, very gemmy, sparkling radiating aggregates of "water" green colored Prehnite measuring up to 1.6 cm across on matrix. The center of the piece is in good shape, but the periphery is contacted where the piece was removed from the pocket. It's good quality, and better in person. Sadly, this great New Jersey locality is being filled in for a housing development (like so many of the great Trap Rock localities in this area), and pieces like this one will be never be collected again. This specimen comes from the collection of Willard W. Wulff (1904-1998) of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a prominent figure and collector of Colorado minerals. Wulff was one of the founding members of the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society in 1936. You can read Willard's bio on the Mineralogical Record website here ( http://www.minrec.org/labels.asp?colid=1528 ). The piece comes with a typed label from Wulff on one of his famous 3x5 index card that states he obtained the piece from Phillip Evanoff. The label says the piece is from "Patterson", and although Prospect Park is not in Paterson, a lot of specimens from this quarry were labeled as such back in the day.