Pyrite on Siderite w/ Calcite casts (old) Lechner Coll.

Item Description

A highly unusual old-time combination specimen from the famous mines at Pribram. The striking front is composed of lustrous brassy rosettes of densely compacted pyrite blades. The numerous cavities in the front are sharply terminated calcite scalenohedron casts! The matrix on the back is tan to white, bladed to massive siderite. A very rare quality and showy combination pseudo from the Lechner, Dixon and Tom Wolfe Collections. Moritz Lechner was a prominent Vienna collector in the late 1800s. His son, Dr. Anton Lechner, inherited the collection, which was subsequently sold in the 1950s to Anton Berger.