Fluorite

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A simply stunning fluorite specimen that is like looking into a TV set. This was purched in China by dealer Ken Roberts in summer of 2005, and kept til now in his personal China collection of miniatures and small cabinet pieces (which has been sold off over the last 2 years). It is mesmerizing in person, even better than the photos, really, because the human eye sees it as more transparent than the camera does (due to light refractions captured in the camera lens but missed by our eyes, it is thus even more cleanly transparent in person). The cube is prcisely 3 cm on edge. It is almost complete all around, with just a few little contacts in back that, in context, simply can be lived with because the piece is so great. I was in China recently and I can tell you, things of this quality just ARE NOT coming regularly from the mine any more, and they never were common to begin with. This level of fluorite is just almost impossible to obtain, even at the source. Joe Budd Photos.