Name: Azurite and Malachite (late 1800s)
Brand: The Arkenstone
Price: 12000 USD
Availability: InStock

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Azurite and Malachite (late 1800s)

This is one of the few larger specimens which had enough continuous lapidary quality carving material to make a big art form carving out of, found when the Larson family purchased the historic Ben Williams Bisbee collection. The rough material for this had not been seen in a century, as old 1800s-early 1900s carving material from Bisbee had been...carved, already! Bill Larson commissioned master lapidary Bud Standley, who specializes in working with copper minerals, to make freeform carvings or slices of some of the best rough specimens, that were not aesthetic as mineral specimens as they came. Such specimens of this size and quality had been only known from museums and a few old collections, until this rediscovery. This large piece became a flagship piece in a memorial case Bill put together in honor of the man and the deal; and retained until now. It is expertly worked on both sides, polished to high luster. Ben Williams became the General Manager of the Copper Queen from 1882 to 1889 and had a stunning personal collection that was only relatively recently brought to market by the Larson's circa 2000; after staying in a family descendant's attic for nearly a century. While they sold much of the collection at that time, this update features pieces from the Ben Williams collection, from the late 1800s, that were kept back another 2 decades in the collection of Bill Larson as a special suite. 395 grams.

$12,000.00