Shattuckite

Item Description

A good representative piece of this classic material, which will go down as some of the finest examples of Shattuckite ever found. This miniature sized specimen hosts radiating aggregates of rich blue Shattuckite measuring up to about 6 mm across, sitting on slightly smoky colored Quartz and host rock matrix. Several over the spheres are contacted, but a few of them are complete and undamaged. Beautiful material, seldom available on the market today.
From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#42 N), a well-known German collector all over Europe with worldwide contacts to dealers and collectors. He started collecting seriously at the age of 14 and his great and varied worldwide collection reached over 6000 pieces. He was very active mineralogically until shortly before his passing in 2020 at the age of 82. Considering his collection had a large number of pieces, it still had an unusually high standard of quality from most worldwide localities. He particularly specialized in all classics as well as minerals of the Black Forest, where he spent much time collecting. His Black Forest and German subcollections went to his good friend Wolfgang Wendel. We at The Arkenstone have the privilege of offering the remainder of this great worldwide collection over the coming months and years through our various platforms.