Prehnite on Calcite (ex Chet Lemanski Collection)

Item Description

These are some of the most distinctive and easily recognizable Prehnite specimens from the modern age of mineral collecting. This small cabinet sized specimen hosts several spherical clusters of crystallized "clamshell"-shaped Prehnites of a lovely translucent green color sitting on a thin layer of Calcite on matrix. The largest Prehnite sphere measures 2.3 cm across. These could be considered classics, now and seldom seen on the market today, like they were in the early 2000s. They will go down as some of the finest quality Prehnite specimens ever found in any world locality. Priced at $950 in the inventory. From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #19245CL. Chet was born 1947 in started collecting minerals circa 1957. He worked briefly as a drill runner at the famous Sterling Mine, in Ogdensburg, New Jersey and from 1987 to 1990 he helped convert the mine into a public access mining museum. He has held the role of treasurer, vice president and president of the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society (FOMS), and has been a board member and vice president of the Franklin Mineral Museum. The rare copper arsenate, Lemanskiite was named in his honor in 1999.