Quartz with Turgite ex. Barlow Coll. (signed label)

Item Description

This was one of the first pieces I bought from John Barlow, when he culled some items before sale of his full collection (and publication of his book) back in the late 1990s. I sold it and it came back recently, small world that it is. To this day, I have not seen another example that I liked better of this bizarre association. It features a large 9-cm-tall, doubly-terminated quartz crystal, completely and evenly coated by an iridescent, very colorful coating of turgite. The quartz sits unlikely, on a shard of matrix that was itself coated by turgite and then attached to the quartz. The two pieces are fused solidly together by the turgite overgrowth, and thus the shard provides a natural, curving, artistic pedestal. Complete all around. At the time I got this, I had John sign the label for the customer I was buying it for and the label is preserved here with it.