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A star-shaped pattern of lovely purple amethyst crystals nicely sits on a piece of grey matrix. The piece shows excellent aesthetics and highest crystal quality. The amethyst shows uniform purple color is transparent and highly lustrous. All crystals are in best shape and condition!
I especially love the unique and very distinctive composition of this specimen. Highly attractive in person!
Crapteig, Thusis, Domleschg, Hinterrhein Valley, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 4 x 3.6 x 2.5 cm
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A group of snow-white quartz with super luster is the perfect base for a pair of sharp, doubly terminated anatase crystals that are presented right at the top of this exceptional specimen. Anatase from the Alps is extremely rare but hardly ever have I seen an aesthetic piece like this with such high class crystals. The anatase is around 1 cm in size and in best condition. The quartz shows some contacts but is well crystallized on all sides. A lovely specimen of superb aesthetics!
Alpe Fiendo, St. Gotthard, Ticino, Switzerland
Size: 12.9 x 6.8 x 5.7 cm
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Very unusual growth brought us this striking piece of two flattened sceptre heads on a common shaft. The two-headed monstrosity was found over hundred years ago (see the historic label that comes with the piece) and never lost anything of its magic. Both heads show a faint purple tinge, intensive "window"-etchings and are in very good, though not 100% perfect condition. The bottom is contacted, not broken and holds some matrix residues. All over this is a fantastic and highly unusual specimen!
Knappenwand, Untersulzbachtal, Pinzgau, Salzburg, Austria
Size: 4.7 x 3.6 x 1.7 cm
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This epidote from the worlds finest epidote deposit at Knappenwand shows great forest green color with the characteristic color-change to brown at the right angle. Due to the chaotic arrangement of crystals you in fact always see a mix of green and brown which is quite charming in person! All crystals are lustrous, sharp, well terminated and gemmy which is especially well visible at the larger 0.6 cm thick crystal. This piece is in very good condition all around with only one broken smaller crystal. A typical Knappenwand epidote of great Alpine elegance!
Saurüssel, Zemmgrund, Zillertaler Alpen, Nordtirol, Austria
Size: 8.2 x 4.8 x 5.3 cm
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Amethyst crystals up to around 2 cm in size are neatly set on a natural piece of matrix. The main view offers a calm picture of grey-brown matrix, sparkling with feldspar micro-crystals. Perched atop this matrix is an aesthetic group of translucent, pointed, somewhat etched amethyst crystals with lovely purple color. Turning the piece around you see a much more vivid landscape with smaller quartz crystals, chaotically arranged and associated with feldspar and also some limonite and hematite.
A very natural piece, characteristic for the Mörchner area!
Valsertal, Surselva, Graubünden, Switzerland
Size: 10.6 x 9.1 x 4.8 cm
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A sculpturesque specimen of water-clear quartz on matrix. Doubly terminated crystals of excellent quality are 3-dimensionally arranged and protrude from the matrix in every possible direction. At the top a single flawless crystal looms up and dominates the aesthetics of the whole specimen. The crystal shows an unusual habit with a slight twist but which resembles not a gwindel but parallel grown crystals that are twisted along the c-axis. And this unusual crystal couldn't be more prominent, sitting atop such a brilliant specimen, showing best luster and clarity all over! An absolute highlight of Alpine quartz, and you will be positively surprised when unpacking this at home!
Hocharnwand, Hohe Tauern, Carinthia, Austria
Size: 7.4 x 2.7 x 2.4 cm
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Rarely do you find specimens of such exceptionally high quality! Especially the upper half of this single crystals specimen is top notch quality: completely limpid through and through and amazing wet look luster on all sides! The termination is sharp and flawless down to the microscopic level! Further down the crystal gets milky but still shows the perfect luster and beautiful striations on the surface. The bottom is contacted, not broken. This is one fantastic specimen that immediately catches the eye despite its medium size. Crystal quality at its very best!
Paprok, Nuristan Province, Afghanistan
Size: 9.7 x 6.5 x 5.4 cm
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This unusually fine tourmaline on quartz is totally impressive! A group of intergrown tourmaline crystals with flat terminations vertically protrudes from a quartz cluster. The quartz is transparent with highly lustrous pyramidal faces and frosted prism faces. Except for one single chip on the lower part of the quartz, it is complete and unharmed all around with doubly terminated crystals and a recrystallized backside. The tourmaline itself is bicolored, an opaque dark green at the lower half and a lovely transparent lilac towards the termination! It has a visible length of 4.2 cm though it continues through the quartz right to the bottom. The tourmaline has a couple of small restaurations but which is hardly visible at all and totally acceptible on an aesthetic quality-specimen like this!
Ras Koh Mts., Kharan, Balochistan, Pakistan
Size: 4 x 2.4 x 1.1 cm
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This epidote specimen is from a recent find in the western Pakistani Mountains that revealed a completely unique and highly aesthetic "bow tie" shape. Sprays of dark green, lustous epidote form this sharp clusters in a just lovely way. This is basically a singly "bow tie" cluster, distinctively developed and with bright luster! It is completely free of any damage all around. A piece of distinct shape and characteristics!
Bergsig Farm, Omaruru, Erongo, Namibia
Size: 6 x 2.5 x 2 cm
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A straight white orthoclase carries several beautiful green fluorite crystals as well as some opal of the transparent hyalite (or opal-AN) variety which combines to this absolutely dramatic aesthetics! The single orthoclase is perfectly developed and flawless. On its front face are some glassy green fluorite crystals of polyhedral shape. At its right you will find a crust of transparent hyalite, an upgrade in mineralogical respect. This is a strikingly beautiful paragenesis all around! Ex Fabian Wildfang collection
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It's one of those specimens that look like a piece of art! A perfect floater with a unique, kind of rounded shape that's caused by massive modifications of the original cubic crystals. Very special also is the intensive water-blue color that is easily visible throughout the transparent crystal and that is especially strong at daylight! The piece comes from a small find with only four specimens in the third cavern of the summit cleft of Weisseck, the so called Jackpot Pocket. Absolutely stunning in shape and quality and extremely hard to find on the market!
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These are rather large and well developed crystals for this rare material and they are really brilliant and sharp! Intensive pink color is distinctively present, though some of the crystals tips tend towards a more smoky color. While around the periphery the piece is contacted the center is all crystallized and in great condition. A superb piece from the unique finds in Coronel Murta!