Calcite, Hematite

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A CLASSIC, OLD-TIME and SHOWY English CABINET plate RICHLY covered with lustrous, pink, hematite-tinted calcite scalenohedrons in a jackstraw pattern from Cumbria. The largest calcite is 3.1 cm. This is certainly one of the most desirable and uncommon in good specimen calcite varietals from Egremont. The label states that this piece is from an old collection, 1890. Ex. George Elling Collection.