Quartz (Var: Smoky Quartz), Epidote

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A stunning, very AESTHETIC, OLD-TIME specimen of a 3.1 cm, pristine, smoky quartz crystal centrally located on a adularia/quartz plate COVERED with gemmy, pistachio-green epidote crystals. The quality of both species is very high. The prism faces of the smoky are water-clear and the termination faces are distinctively chloritized. It is nearly doubly terminated! This SUPER 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.