Lead

An incredibly sculptural competitive miniature specimen of (crystallized) Native Lead from Langban, Sweden, the best locality in the world for the species; and most likely the Type Locality. Stacked, medium gray, distorted crystals of Native Lead, to 2 cm, form curved crystals along with a dramatic curved and somewhat pointed crystal at the apex. Its artistic form and nice size provide aesthetic impact for a normally gray and matrix-heavy species. Most specimens are massive and representative but this is aesthetic, and a good size for many collectors of rare species. Native lead is surprisingly rare n the earth, and crystallized examples even more so. Many of these came out 100-200 years ago - certainly, not recent. This is a very fine, important specimen of crystallized Native Lead, which rarely forms attractive specimens like this one. These collector-quality specimens are known best from the classic old locality of Langban and are sometimes released from old collections like this was. It is extremely uncommon to get a specimen with any sense of aesthetics like this piece. This one is about as elegant as you can expect for the species as a great miniature, and was long in a collection that valued such rarities of display quality.