Pyrargyrite (Willard Perkin and Kay Robertson Coll.)

Item Description

This famous Peru mine has produced some of the finest pyrargyrite specimens in the world and this is an outstanding thumbnail. The sharp, splendent, silver-metallic terminated prism has desirable "ruby silver" color under bright light. Classic material from the Willard Perkin collection or dealer stock (note the label on his TN box). He is generally credited as the inventor of the "Perky box" for standard thumbnails display. Ex Kay Robertson Collection # 10785 and purchased in 1985. Kay is a prominent California collector, who specialized in European classics (see the article in the March-April, 2007 Mineralogical Record).