Quartz "Flower" (RARE locailty!) (ex Kay Robertson Collection)

Item Description

Don't be fooled, this is NOT a Quartz "flower" from Brazil, but rather from what I must assume was an isolated discovery in an undisclosed locality in Imperial County, California. I didn't even pay the piece much attention until I noticed the locality. Obviously we've never seen anything like it, and a lengthy search online produced no other specimens that matched this piece. It is a radial "spray" or flattened "flower" of white / colorless translucent hexagonal Quartz crystals that is crystallized on the front and back. The piece is actually in pretty good condition, but it's the strange locality combined with the unique form that make it so desirable. If you collect worldwide Quartz specimens or minerals of California, then you cannot afford to miss out on this odd / rare / unique specimen! Ex Kay Robertson Collection (#3531b). Kay is a prominent California collector, who specialized in European classics (see the article in the March-April, 2007 Mineralogical Record and the 50+ page article in the German Magazine "Mineralien Welt" November-December 2017).