Silver (ex Howard Belsky Coll.)

Item Description

This elegantly curved silver specimen is highlighted by several diverging wires, to 2.2 cm in length, and actually has such a fine antique patina to it that it somehow looks old to the eye in a way that most minerals do not. The wires are colored a slight black from a thin acanthite coating (although it can be brightened with silver cleaner, that would make it look modern and strange!); and exhibit remnants of their enclosing calcite veins in little bits of calcite still attached. A gorgeous miniature that is balanced and really graceful and organic in the style of the classic Kongsberg rope habit of silver. This is from the fine miniatures suite of the Howard Belsky collection (long vanished for decades after he passed away, and recently sold by the family). A superb miniature, worthy of a competitive exhibit for its ethereal form and 360 display.