Calcite (unique ''flower'')

Item Description

A beautiful "flower"-like specimen featuring dozens of elongated, gemmy, soft golden colored scalenohedral crystals of Calcite measuring up to 1.4 cm long. If you flip the piece over, you can see that it appears to have formed over some tan pocket clay, not host rock matrix. I can't find any damage, as it appears ever crystal is pristine. Such a showy and fine quality display specimen, from an uncommon locality. A great piece to add to any Calcite suite or a collection of Chinese minerals.
From the collection of Kurt Hefendehl (#58 C), a well-known German collector all over Europe with worldwide contacts to dealers and collectors. He started collecting seriously at the age of 14 and his great and varied worldwide collection reached over 6000 pieces. He was very active mineralogically until shortly before his passing in 2020 at the age of 82. Considering his collection had a large number of pieces, it still had an unusually high standard of quality from most worldwide localities. He particularly specialized in all classics as well as minerals of the Black Forest, where he spent much time collecting. His Black Forest and German subcollections went to his good friend Wolfgang Wendel. We at The Arkenstone have the privilege of offering the remainder of this great worldwide collection for the foreseeable future through our various platforms.