Galena, Calcite

Unknown Owner

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A showy, OLD-TIME CABINET specimen of melted-look, variably lustrous galena crystals richly covering the top of vuggy, massive calcite matrix invested with numerous, colorless calcite scalenohedrons on both the front and back of the piece. This is CLASSIC material from the famed St. Andreasberg District of Germany. This old-timer comes from an old European collection, where everything dates to the 1800s. This whole collection had myriad old materials, though I cannot name the owner, and was well known in Europe.