Malachite

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A historic old classic, featuring a beautiful sparkling malachite vug set within the thick, heavy malachite which was so prized by Russian lapidary carvers in the 1700s and 1800s. The drusy malachite forming ballshaped clusters within the seam, is very bright, subtly different from African material. Now, these locales are long gone, and Russian malachite is still prized by specimen collectors. An old parchment label is glued to the back of this specimen. From the Scott Williams collection.