Native Antimony (old - classic locale) Robertson Coll.

St Andreasberg, Harz, Lower Saxony, Germany
Small Cabinet, 5.8 x 1.1 x 1.1 cm (vial)
Start Time: 06/09/2019 6:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 06/13/2019 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
Auction Closed

Item Description

Flakes of lustrous metallic-gray native antimony are set in a 5.8 cm antique cork stoppered glass vial from the historic mines at St Andreasberg. Antimony specimens are relatively uncommon from here. Ex Kay Robertson Collection # 5994 and acquired from Al McGuinness in the late 1960s. Comes with two old labels, one easily over 100 years old. Kay assembled a nice suite of classics and rarities from this famed district. Kay is a prominent California collector, who specialized in European classics (see the article in the March-April, 2007 Mineralogical Record and the 50+ page article in the German Magazine "Mineralien Welt" November-December 2017). An excellent old-time example of an uncommon species. The last mine closed in 1910.

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