A huge garnet out of the Wein Collection, which was heavy on interesting and sometimes rare Alpine specimens of all sorts. This whopper 5-cm garnet sits smack in the middle of a carefully-trimmed schist matrix. It has a couple of little corner contacts, which are pretty insignificant in the context of an Alpine garnet crystal of this size!

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Unknown owner

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The Arkenstone

Richardson, Texas, USA

Unknown previous owners

Earth

Origin

Almandine

SpeciesSize

Almandine, GarnetMedium

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