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Smoky Quartz on matrix (ex Saller Coll.) 
Back to Collection Liquidation Auctions Part II - end Jan 21
Zinggenstocke, Grimsel area, Bern, Switzerland
- Starting Time:1/14/2010 06:30:00 PM(CST)
- Ending Time:1/21/2010 06:59:38 PM(CST)
Time Left:Auction Is Closed
- Size:10.0 x 7.4 x 6.8 cm
- Size Description:Small Cabinet
Description:Water-clear, glassy, smoky quartz crystals to 5.0 cm are richly and aesthetically scattered on feldspar matrix on this excellent specimen from the well-known Zinggenstocke area of Switzerland. Good matrix alpine quartz specimens are rare. The strahlers risk their lives to collect pieces such as this. To bring out a piece like this, undamaged, the collector must recover it in a larger plate and then haul it down the mountain. The larger specimen is later trimmed at home. It is not a collecting trip for the faint of heart. Pristine, except for the periphery wear. Ex Franz Saller Collection. Valued at $900.
