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Calcite
A cluster of glassy and gemmy, water clear scalenohedrons of calcite, to 3.3 cm in length, are aesthetically splayed out from a limonite matrix. The specimen is pristine save for only a trivial cleave at the base of a minor crystal. It is, for a miniature of this style, at the top of the charts. It comes from the David Corse Glen collection in the Kelvingrove Museum, Glasgow (by exchange out to Dick Barstow). It went from the Barstow collection in 1982 upon his untimely death, to the Ralph Sutcliffe collection, which went to the Greenbanks in 1991. An outstanding and beautiful calcite that is both an old classic while still meeting modern standards of superlative quality! Illustrated in the Greenbank Collection book, page 113, along with another calcite from the same collection shown here as well (LGC-33). Joe Budd photo, atop
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SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions5.3 x 4.9 x 4.0 cm
Locality
Added on10/23/2024
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Known provenance
2024/08
Unknown Owner
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