Tourmaline on Albite (ex Henry de Linde Collection)

Item Description

A wonderful old-time specimen from Conselheiro Pena featuring many "needle"-like, gemmy prisms of extra virgin olive oil green colored Tourmaline measuring up to 1.3 cm long sitting on superbly crystallized, thick, white to colorless blades of Albite (var: Cleavelandite). Honestly the Albite for me is the real star of the show here, as one rarely sees such large, well-defined, highly lustrous gemmy blades like this! The display side is in good shape, but the side are contacted where the piece separated from the rest of the pocket. The piece comes with an old label from the legendary Brazilian mineral dealer, Carlos Barbosa with his old price tag of $20 attached. The piece dates back several decades and is a wonderful example of what was coming out of Brazil at the time. From the collection of Henry de Linde (March 21, 1923 – April 4, 2019) of Hot Spring, Arkansas. Henry was one of the most prominent figures in the history of Arkansas mining and mineral collecting. Along with being a miner, mineral collector and an amateur mineralogist, de Linde was one of the founders of the Coon Creek Association mineral club. He was the owner of several key localities in Arkansas including the Diamond Jo Quarry (on the south rim of Magnet Cove), the type locality for Delindeite, which was named in his honor in 1987.