Stilbite on Quartz (Pete Bancroft Coll.)

Item Description

A STRIKING and UNUSUAL LARGE CABINET specimen from OLDER finds near Poona, India. This distinctly, biological-looking specimen has pearlescent, stilbite blades scattered on the rounded, drusy quartz growths rising up from the flat plate of drusy quartz. Note that the stilbite blades are restricted to the "growths" and are not on the plate, itself. A STRANGE and VERY SHOWY large piece with no damage. Valued $750 Ex Pete Bancroft Collection (he is the author of the book GEM AND CRYSTAL TREASURES). This is VERY UNCOMMON material from the 1970s or early 1980s.