Red Vesuvianite - rare old classic

Item Description

Deep wine-red crystals to good size, of the classic Italian vesuvianite finds! This is a large, fat, very lustrous and glassy crystal of high quality for the style from older finds, that came out of an old Italian collection. These normally sell for thousands of EUROS when you see them on the market at the Munich show with European specialist dealers! This one is beautiful, lustrous, and actually it is pristine save for one small ding or contact in the upper-right corner (to be sure, a detraction but a matter of how much wihtin context of this large 3-cm-long crystal - and it could be epoxy-filled with restoration if desired). A superb miniature, for what it is. Valued $1000-1200