Celestine with Sulfur

Item Description

A beautiful association specimen from Sicily featuring excellent, very sharp, notably well-formed, white blocky crystals of Celestine measuring up to 1.7 cm, sitting atop yellow Sulfur. I love the reflective luster on the Celestine crystals, and the beautiful cascading arrangement makes for an incredibly eye-catching specimen. A very showy and fine quality piece of this classic material. Hard to find in this size and quality on the market today. Priced in our inventory at $1,800. For reference, Sulfur should be spelled S-U-L-F-U-R (not sulphur) as both the International Union of Pure and Applied Chemistry along with the British Royal Society of Chemistry adopted this spelling in the 1990s (see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sulfur#Spelling_and_etymology). Wikipedia also states that, "Sulfur is derived from the Latin word sulpur, which was Hellenized to sulphur in the erroneous belief that the Latin word came from Greek." From the collection of Robert (Bob) Reynolds (#RR0342). Bob was a well-known fossil and mineral expert and former Curator of Earth Sciences at the San Bernardino County Museum in California. The rare phyllomanganate-chromate species Reynoldsite was named in his honor in 2011.