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Shigar Valley, Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan
Size: 4.1 x 3 x 1.6 cm
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This little aquamarine looks like an angel with white wings! The aquamarine has a distinct sky-blue color and strikes with a fantastic, sharp cut and artfully modified termination! The body is completely limpid, the surface is smooth and lustrous! On both sides there are small patches of white feldspar that are perfectly crystallized and look just gorgeous! This is a lovely little specimen of exceptional aesthetics that shows no damage whatsoever!
Wagholi, Poonah District, Maharashtra, India
Size: 7.1 x 5.2 x 3.8 cm
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This specimen is of nice small cabinet size and presents a gorgeous landscape of bright turquoise cavansite on white heulandite. The whole specimen is in best condition with contacts only on the backside but most parts being beautifully crystallized. For a better look on all sides, please have a look on our video! The color is a little brighter than you can see in the picture, more to the turquoise side. All in all this is a sparkling specimen of great color and contrast!
Schwarzenstein, Mörchnerkar, Zillertal Alps, Tyrol, Austria
Size: 12.5 x 7 x 5.5 cm
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Classic yet highly unusual! This quartz sceptre is a pristine exemplar from the famous Mörchnerkar that combines a large, massive crystal with very fine details and vivid structures! Atop a broad stem of milky white quartz is a conical head, colored with black inclusions. Intensive etchings - the windows or "Fenster" - are visible on every side, distinctively developed and beautifully structured! The whole specimen is in very good condition. Even the bottom is all crystallized and perfect! A dramatic specimen of exceptional quality and visual impact!
Val Gronda da Cavrein, Vorderrheintal, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 6.3 x 5.4 x 3.3 cm
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A cluster of glassy quartz crystals is nested in a furrow between rock matrix, adularia and amianth. One single main crystal ascends from the center and catches the eye through impressive design and quality! All over this piece there is no damage. All crystals are in very best condition, water clear and with best luster on all sides!
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The brilliance of this single crystal tourmaline specimen is just out of this world! Fantastic wet look luster on all sides, super-gemmy crystal quality and a sharp complex termination make this tourmaline special! It is in near-flawless condition and amazingly beautiful in person!
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This little quartz specimen of characteristic "tessin quartz" habit shows absolutely fantastic quality! Very best luster and clarity is united in this sharp knife shaped crystal! Unfortunately the tip is slightly chipped but the rest of the piece is in very best shape with even the bottom being contacted, not broken. A brilliant piece of highest quality if you can live with the small issue at the termination.
Turbenalp, Goms, Wallis, Switzerland
Size: 10.7 x 9.2 x 7 cm
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High quality quartz, rust brown rutile needles and some glistening grey matrix are grown upon each other to form this unusual very three-dimensional and - in its very own fetching way - beautiful specimen. On the main view you can see rock matrix and sharp colorless quartz framing a nice and well developed sagenite grid that is in parts overgrown by completely transparent quartz. This interplay of rutile and quartz is utterly beautiful while presented on an piece of wild beauty. The whole piece is in very good condition with damage only on the bottom and lower backside. Very attractive and unique if you tend towards natural specimens that defy the common textbook aesthetics.
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This Alpine beauty distinctively shows the characteristic Tessin-quartz habit in perfection! It has very nice hand size with a vertical main crystal that’s a little over 6 cm. The quality here is exceptionally high! Best glassy crystals with superb luster all over and no damage whatsoever! The main quartz and its side-crystals are associated with shimmering muscovite. Very sculpturesque as you can see in our video!
Khoroshiv (Volodarsk-Volynskii), Zhytomyr Oblast, Ukraine
Size: 3.9 x 1.4 x 1.2 cm
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This is a high quality specimen from the famous finds at Khoroshiv (better known by its old name Volodarsk-Volynskii). It shows very characteristic etchings all around which provides a highly attractive shape. The heliodor is all gemmy and has a nice luster. There is some hard to identify edge-wear present but overall the condition is very good from bottom to top!
Priozersk, Karaganda Region, Kazakhstan
Size: 3.1 x 2.2 x 1.9 cm
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This lovely specimen has two interlocked crystals that are up to 2 cm long and with amazing quality: Glassy, razor sharp amethyst with intensive purple color! They are in best condition and nicely set on a well proportioned piece of rock matrix. An absolutely gorgeous piece as you can well see in our video!
Kattumunnur Mine, Karur District, Tamil Nadu, India
Size: 3 x 2.9 x 1.7 cm
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This is a jewel of utter brilliance! In the mid 2000s a relatively small number of high class, mostly miniature sized specimens were found at the Kakamunurle Mine near Karur. The crystals, commonly sceptres, are known for their superb quality as you can very well see on this specimen. Intensively purple, glassy amethyst sceptres are crowded atop a floater piece of colorless quartz. At the center is a flat structure of quartz with layers of hematite which adds a unique look to this sparkling specimen. Very attractive in person as you can easily see in our video!
Stak Nala, Haramosh Mts., Skardu District, Gilgit-Baltistan , Pakistan
Size: 4 x 3.8 x 2.4 cm
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This highly aesthetic single tourmaline is set in a lovely bed of snow white albite!
The whole specimen is in fantastic condition all over and really just marvelous!
The tourmaline is rather dark, almost black, but has a nice green zone at the termination. It is highly lustrous and completely flawless!
Around the tourmaline is a brilliant white crystallized albite matrix that is also undamaged on front and backside as well!