Gemmy Indicolite Tourmaline w/ Lepidolite (Kay Robertson Coll.)

Golconda pegmatite, Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Small Cabinet, 7.6 x 3.2 x 2.4 cm
Start Time: 10/20/2017 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 10/26/2017 6:32:09 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

An outstanding and unusual matrix indicolite tourmaline from famous Golconda pegmatite of Minas Gerais. The highly lustrous and gemmy tapered crystal has glorious rich indicolite blue color and is dramatically and unusually etched. The well-placed and aesthetic matrix includes beautiful, lustrous, light lilac lepidolite crystals nicely set in brown microcrystalline cookeite accented with a few shards of snow-white albite. This exceptional matrix indicolite is complete all-around an pristine. It GLOWS with beautiful blue color, when backlit! Ex Kay Robertson Collection # 10895 and acquired from well-known Brazilian dealer Carlos Barbosa at the 1986 Tucson Show. A rare and fine older indicolite combination from this famed locale. MUCH, MUCH BETTER IN PERSON!! Valued at $1250-1500 for rich color, gemminess, rare style and combination. An unusual and very fine combination indicolite from Golconda.

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