Fluorite

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This beauty is 360-degrees complete all around and looks like a Rodin sculpture, with elegant aesthetics that are very unusual in that the crystals seem to pop out at you from the core, rather than grow gently out of it as with other pieces here. It is 3 x 2.5 x 2 inches in size. The large crystal atop is transparent and gemmy, and measures almost 3 cm or 1-1/8 inches on edge. It is 3-dimensional and very sculptural, and very clear. This is, for my tastes of aesthetics and condition, the best of the pocket that I am aware of (of what was at Munich, anyhow). This is by all accounts the finest specimen of the lot according also to the Gobins (French dealer-friends of mine), one of whom was luckily already down in Namibia when these came out; and they hands-down had the best lot at the show. This was exchanged from them to me, so it is more or less directly from the source down there, and they were found just a short while before Munich. It is illustrated already in the new finds section of the French journal Le Regne Minerale, which came out this week; and I understand it may be shown in other journals as an exemplar of the find.