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Silver wires and Acanthite on Calcite (Wes Parker Coll.)
- San Genaro Mine, Castrovirreyna Prov., Huancavelica Dept., Peru
- Miniature, 4.2 x 4.0 x 2.2 cm
- Start Time: 05/01/2010 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- End Time: 05/06/2010 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
- Auction Closed
Item Description
Beautifully burnished silver wires and moderately lustrous, subhedral, acanthite crystals are aesthetically clustered atop a wedge of matrix covered with starkly contrasting snow-white calcite rhombs on this showy and excellent miniature from the famous San Genaro Mine of Peru. Very little new material from this famous silver species producer, as of late. Ex Wes Parker Collection.