Treasure Trove

What an amazing sample of richly pink cobaltoan smithsonite! A vug in galena and tetrahedrite ore is filled with sharp and well modified smithsonite crystals of altering size. A 20mm wide crystal is placed right in the centre of the piece and gives it a clear focal point of interest. Smaller crystals around form a pleasing contrast and make a nice balance. No damage to all crystals in the vug.

Gorgeous twinned cerussite crystals featuring phantoms and a negative crystal with water bubble inclusion!

This is an excellent specimen form a classic European locale. Several well terminated crystals up to 1.3 cm in size are sitting on the upperedge of a white calcite matrix. The crystals have been well preserved from natural daylight and still glow fiercely red when backlight!Found in 1864 (according to an old label coming with the specimen), the piece has been in several well-known collections thereafter! Ex collections Wüster, F.H. Pough, L.H. Conklin, M. Baumstark collections.

This is one of the most beautiful English clacites I have ever seen! Several crystals in diverging growth form a calcite specimen of breathtaking aesthetics. All of the crystals are highly lustrous and transparent, and tiny hematite inclusions add a splendid reddish-pink hue. Ex U. Burchard and Walter Knobloch collections.

Gorgeous silver wires on calcite matrix! Minor fluorite and acanthite is present in places. The piece has incredible aesthetics and great visual impact!

Very sharp and nicely isolated benitoite crystals on natrolite matrix. Ex Steve Smale collection.

Well crystallized gold on quartz matrix.

A wonderful spray of perfect crocoite crystals perched on a nicely contrasting matrix! One of the very best pieces from the recent finds.

What a huge and well formed crystal of milticoloured liddicoatite! Indeed, the quality combined with the size is truly amazing!

Sharp, well-formed and isolated stephanite crystal perched on white calcite crystals! The stephanite measures 21 mm across and is accompanied by small pyrargyrite crystals. This specimen comes with an old historic box, an old label stating "Melanglanz" and the newspaper where it was wrapped. That piece of newspaper is dated march 25, 1913! The lustre is very fresh and brilliant which proves that the piece has been kept in the dark since it was found. What a gorgeous sample of this rare silver sulfosalt!

WOW! This is a half-closed half-open gwindel of the very best quality one can look for! Ultra-rare shape, flawless transparency and gorgeous twist! It truly sets a standard for the exceedingly rare shape. Just mind-blowing!

WOW! This gwindel features incredible shape combined with perfect quality! It has all every gwindel collector is dreaming of. The pictures are just snapshots made in my hands, but they say it all. What a freaking killer!