Smoky Quartz with Albite and Amazonite (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 was personally collected by Wulff. This is a great old display piece of featuring a good quality, sharp, well-formed, lustrous, prismatic crystal of richly colored Smoky Quartz with a radial group of Albite and a tiny bit of rich blue-green Amazonite. When SRONGLY backlit, the Smoky 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 60 years. An attractive specimen from this noteworthy collection.