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Psilomelane (rare locality) Fioravanti Coll.
- Platna, Erzgebirge, Bohemia, Czech Republic
- Small Cabinet, 5.7 x 5.0 x 3.5 cm
- Start Time: 03/10/2013 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 03/14/2013 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
Psilomelane is extremely rare from the Czech side of the historic Erzgebirge. This is a very nifty, sculptural, 360-degree mounded specimen of bubbly, botryoidal psilomelane. Many such pieces are like charcoal, turning your hands black, but this one is stable. Platna is a small tin and iron manufacturing town in northern Bohemia. Ex Giancarlo Fioravanti Collection and obtained in a exchange with the Autica Collection in 1962. This piece probably dates to prior to World War II.