Kermesite

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A great German classic from the 1800s. Radiating sprays of flat-lying, highly lustrous, acicular, deep wine-red kermesite crystals to about 9 mm line a quartz-lined vug in matrix from the historic, old German Type Locality - the Neue Hoffnung Gottes Mine of Saxony. Accompanied by an expertly handwritten, faded label from an older collection. The collection this came out of was a museum stash dating to prior to World War I.