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Quartz (Gwindel) With Adularia

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This is a huge gwindel (twisted) quartz crystal that is perched on matrix with the aesthetics you would expect in a miniature, not in a piece the size and weight of a bowling ball! This locality produced such pieces in the 1980s, and few of such size and perfection, we think. It has been in the Daniel Trinchilllo Sr. collection (with specialties in both Quartz and Alpine suites); and then went into the well-known Marc Weill collection built up in the early 2000's. The crystal alone is nearly 7.5 inches long. It is over 2 inches thick and SO GEMMY AND LIMPID, its like looking into frozen water with sparkles trapped inside...and the clarity is really, really unusually good, especially in the size range. For a lage and colorless, totally clear gwindel, this would have to rank among the top few pieces of the style recovered from what I know of and can ascertain from asking the dealers and collectors of such pieces. The quartz sits, twisted, on a matrix of alpine granite with adularia feldspar crystals - and few come out with any matrix at all, let alone a nice pedestal of good balance in size. This is hands down one of the more important quartzes I have had, period. This piece weighs 11 pounds and comes with a custom display base. Joe Budd photos