Sulfur with Celestine (ex Paul Zerfass Collection)

Agrigento, Agrigento Province, Sicily, Italy
Cabinet, 10.8 x 9.3 x 7.8 cm
Start Time: 07/13/2017 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 07/20/2017 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

A wonderful cabinet specimen of gemmy, brilliant yellow native Sulfur from the famous area in Sicilty. The largest crystal on this specimen measures 1.2 cm, with many other crystals scattered on white Celestine matrix. A few superficial spots of roughness here and there keep the piece from being 100% perfect, but it's still in good condition, and would From the collection of the long time, beloved, well-known French field collector, Paul Zerfass (Collection #521). Zerfass built this worldwide collection over nearly 50 years, many of which were personally collected. A biography featuring specimens from his collection (along with his face on the cover) is in the May - June 2017 issue of French mineral magazine, Le Regne Mineral. We have a .pdf copy of the article for anybody interested in reading it (though it's mostly in French). Just drop us a line and know that you'd like to have a copy.

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