Smithsonite (ex Willard Wulff Collection)

Item Description

This specimen comes from the collection of Willard W. Wulff (1904-1998) of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a prominent figure and collector of Colorado minerals. Wulff was one of the founding members of the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society in 1936. You can read Willard's bio on the Mineralogical Record website here ( http://www.minrec.org/labels.asp?colid=1528 ). The piece comes with a typed label from Wulff on one of his famous 3x5 index cards that states the piece was acquired from Pardo's Rocks and Minerals in Tucson, Arizona. This is a cool display piece featuring vitreous / resinous purplish-lilac color spherical aggregates of Smithsonite on matrix. The piece is in great shape overall. The label says it's from Chihuahua, Mexico, but it could be from Choix, which is in Sinaloa. An attractive, great old time specimen from this noteworthy collection.