Smoky Quartz & Microcline (Ted Bartels Coll.)

Item Description

A pristine, fine, sharply terminated, glassy, transparent to translucent, 3.7 cm, smoky quartz crystal with variable color dominates this showy and excellent combination from this well-known New Hampshire locale. Scattered smokies in the sculptural microcline and cleavelandite crystal matrix are a nice compliment to this two-sided piece from the Ted Bartels Collection. Classic, probably older combination material from the Ted Bartels Collection and comes with a with a Gerstmann's label, well-known Franklin collectors and dealers, dating from the early 1960s to 1980. Also with a John MacDonald label. Read his biography at: https://mineralogicalrecord.com/labels.asp?colid=1365.