Topaz with Quartz

Item Description

An attractive toenail sized specimen from Dassu featuring a lustrous, prismatic, well-terminated, GEM QUALITY, pale champagne-colored Topaz measuring crystal with 2 Quartz crystals on beige Feldspar matrix. No damage that I can find, and very attractive in person.
From the collection of Chester ("Chet") S. Lemanski Jr. of Browns Mills, New Jersey (https://www.mindat.org/user-461.html). Collection #19015CL. The piece was originally from the collection of Dan Serebrakian. Chet was born 1947 in started collecting minerals circa 1957. He worked briefly as a drill runner at the famous Sterling Mine, in Ogdensburg, New Jersey and from 1987 to 1990 he helped convert the mine into a public access mining museum. He has held the role of treasurer, vice president and president of the Franklin-Ogdensburg Mineralogical Society (FOMS), and has been a board member and vice president of the Franklin Mineral Museum. The rare copper arsenate, Lemanskiite was named in his honor in 1999.