Tourmaline & Lepidolite on Muscovite (classic locale)

Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Small Cabinet, 5.5 x 4.5 x 2.3 cm
Start Time: 05/24/2018 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 05/31/2018 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

Gemmy bottle-green tourmaline crystals are aesthetically festooned on this very showy and excellent small cabinet combination from the renowned Golconda pegmatite. The pencils, to 2.2 cm, are richly sprinkled on the layered, pearlescent muscovite plate matrix covered with tiny lepidolite crystals. Choice old-time combination material from the 1960s-70s finds here. From the Joe Lobell Collection of Oklahoma. Rarely on the market in this combination quality from here.

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