Special Paul Zerfass Collection Auction!

Paul Zerfass built a French specialist collection over nearly 50 years of both self-collecting at famous French localities and trading to other collectors and to dealers, and parlayed some of it into a worldwide suite which we are happy to release here. He enjoyed diversity and in particular assembled strong suites of quartz and worldwide sulfide species. A biography featuring specimens from his collection (along with his face on the cover) is in the May - June 2017 issue of French mineral magazine, Le Règne Minéral. We have a PDF copy of the article for anybody interested in reading it (though it's mostly in French).

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Fluorite (beautiful zoned crystals)
La Barre Mine, Puy-de-Dome, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France
Ex. Paul Zerfass
8.8 x 5.4 x 3.3 cm
Winning Bid: $380
Quartz - Dauphine habit (superb for locality!)
Vaujany, Grenoble, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France
Ex. Paul Zerfass
11.1 x 5.4 x 4.0 cm
Winning Bid: $338
Pyromorphite - large stalactitic cluster
Les Farges Mine, Ussel, Correze, France
Ex. Paul Zerfass
11.8 x 3.7 x 2.2 cm
Winning Bid: $445
Fluorite
Le Burg, Alban-Le Fraysse area, Tarn, Midi-Pyrenees, France
Ex. Paul Zerfass
9.5 x 6.6 x 3.6 cm
Winning Bid: $343
Baryte
Aydat, Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dome, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France
Ex. Paul Zerfass
8.8 x 7.2 x 7.3 cm
Winning Bid: $286
Azurite
Sepon Mine, Vilabouly Dist., Savannakhet Prov., Laos
Ex. Paul Zerfass
7.0 x 6.1 x 4.5 cm
Winning Bid: $734
Aquamarine
Nagar Valley, Gilgit Dist., Pakistan
Ex. Paul Zerfass
6.4 x 5.3 x 6.1 cm
Winning Bid: $479
Pyromorphite
Les Farges Mine, Ussel, Correze, France
Ex. Paul Zerfass
10.2 x 4.0 x 7.4 cm
Winning Bid: $255
Fluorite with multiple colors
La Barre Mine, Puy-de-Dome, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France
Ex. Paul Zerfass
7.9 x 9.2 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $466
Galena with Chalcopyrite and Quartz
Madan, Smolyan Prov., Bulgaria
Ex. Paul Zerfass
12.1 x 6.7 x 4.9 cm
Winning Bid: $185
Azurite and Malachite 'pocket'
Sepon Mine, Vilabouly Dist., Savannakhet Prov., Laos
Ex. Paul Zerfass
11.1 x 8.8 x 10.8 cm
Winning Bid: $1,249
Stibnite
Lejiawan Mine, Lechang Co., Shaoguan, Guangdong, China
Ex. Paul Zerfass
17.1 x 11.8 x 9.6 cm
Winning Bid: $327
Fluorite (twinned crystals)
Frazer's Hush Mine, Stanhope, Durham, England, UK
Ex. Paul Zerfass
10.4 x 8.3 x 3.7 cm
Winning Bid: $280
Boulangerite
Herja Mine, Baia Mare, Maramureș Co., Romania
Ex. Paul Zerfass
11.8 x 7.9 x 7.1 cm
Winning Bid: $361
Pyromorphite
Les Farges Mine, Ussel, Correze, France
Ex. Paul Zerfass
15.8 x 17.3 x 11.4 cm
Winning Bid: $745
Fluorite
Emilio Mine, Lorone, Colunga, Asturias, Spain
Ex. Paul Zerfass
10.9 x 8.5 x 5.4 cm
Winning Bid: $425
Fluorite on Sphalerite with radiation patterns
Elmwood Mine, Carthage, Smith Co., Tennessee, USA
Ex. Paul Zerfass
15.1 x 12.6 x 11.1 cm
Winning Bid: $1,850
Fluorite circa 1980s ("ice cube" crystals) with phantom
Dalnegorsk, Primorsky Krai, Russia
Ex. Paul Zerfass
11.7 x 7.5 x 6.4 cm
Winning Bid: $1,250
Galena with Pyrite on Tetrahedrite and Quartz
Madan, Smolyan Prov., Bulgaria
Ex. Paul Zerfass
9.7 x 9.5 x 5.8 cm
Winning Bid: $488
large Galena (twins) with Calcite
Madan, Smolyan Prov., Bulgaria
Ex. Paul Zerfass
16.4 x 13.4 x 11.9 cm
Winning Bid: $297
Fluorite with Galena
Rogerley Quarry, Weardale, Durham, England, UK
Ex. Paul Zerfass
13.3 x 9.4 x 6.1 cm
Winning Bid: $1,010
Fluorite
Xianghualing Mine, Linwu Co., Chenzhou, Hunan, China
Ex. Paul Zerfass
20.6 x 13.9 x 9.4 cm
Winning Bid: $675
Rhodochrosite
Madan, Smolyan Prov., Bulgaria
Ex. Paul Zerfass
17.2 x 11.5 x 7.7 cm
Winning Bid: $265
Quartz on Fluorite
Langeac, Haute-Loire, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France
Ex. Paul Zerfass
14.9 x 15.1 x 7.9 cm
Winning Bid: $560
Quartz var. Smoky Quartz
Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ex. Paul Zerfass
19.5 x 14.3 x 3.4 cm
Winning Bid: $405
Quartz var. Smoky Quartz (floater)
Governador Valadares, Minas Gerais, Brazil
Ex. Paul Zerfass
16.3 x 4.5 x 4.3 cm
Winning Bid: $495
Quartz - classic European locale
Saint-Jean-de-Maurienne, Savoie, Auvergne-Rhone-Alpes, France
Ex. Paul Zerfass
14.2 x 10.6 x 8.8 cm
Winning Bid: $395
Fluorite
La Collada mining area, Siero, Asturias, Spain
Ex. Paul Zerfass
10.5 x 7.3 x 5.4 cm
Winning Bid: $591