Smithsonite

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This is a very old piece that comes with an invoice showing that Boydston purchased it in 1959. It is a pastel robins-egg blue color, but not pale by any stretch. The color is similar to Kelly Mine, but distinct to my eye. The specimen is really aesthetic, for the contrasting rolling hillocks of smithsonite and the shadows between. The display face is remarkably pristine, and complete. The smithsonite is thick and heavy, not just the usual thin coating from here. ex Don Boydston Collection (Don passed away some time ago and his collection was sold to cover a debt to his painting framer.That worthy quickly realized its value and sold the collection, intact with all its treasures mostly from the 1950s-1970s, to a mineral dealer in about 2004 or so). A very rare, historic smithsonite of a type I had not seen from this mine.. Joe Budd photos.