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

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 - it's so dark it could be called "Morion" Quartz. The COOLEST part is that the piece has a slight sepration of pinkish feldspar near the base, where it continued to crystallize, creating a rare and unique doubly-terminated specimen! The piece is nearly 100% complete, and though it's not a total "floater", it's close. It's a significant old time specimen dating back probably around 60 years. An attractive specimen from this noteworthy collection.