Silver on Arsenic ex Ed David Collection

Item Description

From an old stash of these East German classics, put together during the days when the Soviets mined the place. The Pohla silvers are known for their extremely photogenic herringbone-like crystallization, which you see here in all its intricate beauty. The silver is embedded in, and flowering out from, massive matrix of silver and arsenic ore. This piece has a huge display face, just covered with good quality silver of a style that made this one of the more famous silver localities for collectors for many years. Today, they are hard to obtain. This is a dramatic piece with particularly nice arsenic matrix. From the Dr. Ed David collection (Ed was President Nixon's White House Science Advisor among his other roles in politics and science). Valued $2500. Comes with custom lucite display base.