Silver from Saggrenda Mine, Kongsberg silver mining district, Buskerud, Norway

A complete and robust silver crystal from this legendary locality, more famous for wire silver than for sharply crystallized specimens. Crystallized silver of any shape is found here at 1 in 1000, compared to wire forms. This is a ridiculously fine, massively impactful, large thumbnail specimen featuring a single dramatic tetrahexahedral silver crystal ensconced in a drapery of secondary silver mineralization (acanthite) on some portions. The patina is beautiful, showing that it has not been chemically cleaned or stripped of an acanthite coating. It is likely a very old piece, although the history is sadly lost. It is SHARP, where as nearly all Kongsberg silver crystals are crude in definition. A silver crystal like few others.