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Pyrite (excellent old classic) Univ. of Delaware Coll.
- French Creek Mines, St. Peters, Chester Co., Pennsylvania
- Small Cabinet, 7.0 x 4.8 x 3.9 cm
- Start Time: 07/17/2014 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 07/24/2014 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
Highly lustrous, densely stepped-growth, brass-yellow, pyrite cubes form a showy and excellent old-time mounded specimen from this famous locale. This pyrite form is very uncommon from the French Creek Mines. The iron mines operated intermittently from 1717 to 1928! Ex University of Delaware Collection and gifted by Mr. George Rowe. A note on the back says that Mr. Rowe was a Mine Captain at Franklin.