Tourmaline & Microcline (classic locale) Robertson Coll.

Item Description

A striking, very showy and highly unusual combination miniature from the 1960s-70s finds at famed Virgem da Lapa. Dramatic sprays of gemmy and lustrous, olive-green tourmaline prisms are embedded on the sides of a sharp, lustrous, pearlescent, partially doubly terminated and subhedral microcline crystal. The large tourmaline piercing the microcline really adds pizzazz to this fascinating and rare 360-degree combination. The microcline crystal grew on the tourmalines. Ex Kay Robertson Collection # 9664 and acquired from Al McGuiness in August, 1982. Kay is a prominent California collector, who specialized in European classics (see the article in the March-April, 2007 Mineralogical Record and the 50+ page article in the German Magazine "Mineralien Velt" November-December 2017). A RARE and excellent combination, as microcline is RARE from here.