Amazonite (ex Willard Wulff Collection - collected Wulff)

Crystal Peak, near Florrisant, Teller County, Colorado
Miniature, 4.3 x 4.1 x 3.9 cm
Start Time: 06/22/2017 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 06/29/2017 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
Auction Closed

Item Description

This specimen comes from the collection of Willard W. Wulff (1904-1998) of Colorado Springs, Colorado, a prominent figure and collector of Colorado minerals. Wulff was one of the founding members of the Colorado Springs Mineralogical Society in 1936. You can read Willard's bio on the Mineralogical Record website here ( http://www.minrec.org/labels.asp?colid=1528 ). The piece comes with a typed label from Wulff on one of his famous 3x5 index cards that states the piece was personally collected by Wulff. This is a great old display piece of featuring good quality, sharp, well-formed, lustrous, prismatic crystals of soft-blue green Amazonite. Severals of the crystals are 100% complete, though the back side is contacted. The most interesting aspect of the piece is that it shows the classic, rare and desirable "white cap" habit, which according to Wulff's label is an alteration to Albite, but I think it's actually still Microcline that didn't get enough of the blue green color to make it Amazonite. It's hard to find groups or clusters like this from Colorado that are NOT repaired, or glued back together, and this piece has no restorations or repairs whatsoever. It's a wonderful old time specimen dating back probably around 50-60 years. An attractive specimen from this noteworthy collection.

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