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Copper (1800's label)
One of the few significant AND truly well documented American coppers from this important early era of Michigan copper exploration, which also comes with a truly gorgeous label preserved from the 1800's. This piece is exquisite in person for so many reasons beyond the label and provenance; however, it has a choice and complete, 360-degree-around pristine crystal atop a natural pedestal. As you look, it gets better and better with complex and sharp crystals, superb patina, and small trigon-like outgrowths that add character and detail. These crystals have the perfect patina, and are unusually sharp. The curving shape of the elongated crystal atop is also highly unusual - and aesthetic. This piece was one I always treasured in the private collection of Herb Obodda (which we purchased in 2008). It then went into the Sean Finneson Copper collection, as exhibited in Tucson 2022. Piece for piece, this was considered by many to be the most choice and carefully selected copper collection of recent times, as a whole. Published in Mineral Collections in the Pacific Northwest (Mineralogical Record, Sept. 2019 - Scovil photo at end of our own photos). Some coppers are just better in person - this is hard to convey in the detail and dimensionality, but it really is that good and has been treasured for decades by only 2 previous owners. For the time before that, likely from the 1860s until Herb acquired it in a European Collection purchase in the 1990s, it remained in Europe. This is a premium small cabinet historic copper, just a bit better and more interesting and more perfect than most; and such coppers come with a price.
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Product details
Species
SizeSmall Cabinet
Dimensions7.3 x 5.0 x 3.0 cm
Locality
Cliff Mine, Allouez Township, Keweenaw Co., Michigan, USA
Added on04/11/2025
Known provenance
Unknown date
Unknown Owner
$40,000.00—Species and Locality Wiki Pages
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