Pyromorphite (old classic - 1800s) Dr. Barratt Phillips Coll.

Bad Ems District, Lahn valley, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany
Miniature, 4.5 x 2.9 x 2.1 cm
Start Time: 05/18/2017 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 05/25/2017 6:30:00 pm (CDT)
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Item Description

Bad Ems pyromorphite is a European classic and this showy old-time miniature is from the Dr. Barratt Phillips Collection. Intergrown reddish-brown cauliflower head-like sprays of prisms form a distinctively different two-sided specimen. Comes with an old label from one of the most famous of the 19th Century European mineral dealerships dating from 1824 to the early 1900s.

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