Sulfur sand (RARE - 1857 OLD Mexico!) Kay Robertson Coll.

Item Description

A TRUE OLD-TIME and probably unique artifact from the famous 5426 m or 17743' tall active Mexico volcano Popocatepetl! The 3.0 cm box is filled with sulfur "sand". The writing on the box says the sulfur was collected on June 20, 1857 by Hartford Poole! A faded old label from the E. B. Underhill Collection comes with the piece. He was a prominent New York Collector, who passed away in 1888. Read his biography in the Mineralogical Record Biographical Archive at: http://www.minrec.org/labels.asp?colid=92. Sometime between 1850 and 1865 a sulfur distillation plant was erected on the mountain, but efforts to mine the sulfur proved economically unviable (MINDAT). A historically important, documented and very rare old-time Mexico specimen from the Kay Robertson Collection # 10873 and acquired from Pegua Minerals at Tucson in 1986. Kay is a prominent California collector, who specialized in European classics (see the article in the March-April, 2007 Mineralogical Record). A MUST for the Mexico collector!