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Turquoise (RARE locality specimen) (ex Al Kidwell Collection)
- Crow Springs District, Esmeralda County, Nevada, USA
- Miniature, 4.7 x 4.2 x 1.6 cm
- Start Time: 02/03/2022 9:00:00 pm (CST)
- End Time: 02/10/2022 6:45:00 pm (CST)
- Auction Closed
- Winning Bid: $232
Item Description
One of the great perks of acquiring an old collection like this one is seeing material that hasn't been on the market in decades. We've never seen a piece of this material before. This piece is a wonderful and sculptural miniature sized specimen featuring beautiful light greenish-blue colored patches of Turquoise sitting on minor matrix. The piece is completely natural, no dye or polish/tumbling, this is how it looked when it came out of the ground. If you collect copper minerals, or specimens from the Western United States, this is a wonderful piece to add to your collection, as I can bet that very few people have seen any of these specimens. From the worldwide mineral collection of Albert Lewis Kidwell (January 1, 1919 - August 16, 2008). Al was a well-known mineral collector and research geologist with Carter Oil Company and later Exxon Oil Company in Houston, Texas. The phosphate species Kidwellite was named in his honor in 1974 ( https://www.mindat.org/photo-326405.html ).
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Bidding History
| Bid Amount | Bid Time |
|---|---|
| $232 | 02/10/2022 6:39:19 pm (CST) |
| $222 * | 02/10/2022 6:38:58 pm (CST) |
| $222 * | 02/10/2022 6:38:56 pm (CST) |
| $179 | 02/10/2022 5:46:33 pm (CST) |
| $169 | 02/10/2022 5:46:33 pm (CST) |
| $121 | 02/09/2022 4:39:20 pm (CST) |
| $111 | 02/09/2022 4:39:20 pm (CST) |
| $79 | 02/09/2022 4:10:21 pm (CST) |
| $69 | 02/09/2022 4:10:21 pm (CST) |
| $38 | 02/09/2022 4:10:01 pm (CST) |
| $33 | 02/09/2022 4:10:01 pm (CST) |
| $15 | 02/06/2022 11:46:37 pm (CST) |
| $10 | 02/04/2022 5:04:57 pm (CST) |