Smoky Quartz (ex Willard Wulff Collection - collected by Wulff)

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 personally collected. This is a great old display piece of featuring a good quality, sharp, well-formed, lustrous, prismatic crystal of richly colored Smoky Quartz. When SRONGLY backlit, the crystal shows a deep amber hue. The piece is nearly 100% complete with a small nick near the termination. It's a significant old time specimen dating back probably around 50-60 years. An attractive specimen from this noteworthy collection.