Cinnabar (twins) on Quartz with Dolomite (ex Franceso Bedogne Collection)

Item Description

Brilliant, scintillating, incredibly well-formed, smooth, lustrous, sharp, deep metallic red color, contact twinned crystals {0001} of Cinnabar sit aesthetically on sharp, lustrous, colorless, gemmy, prismatic Quartz crystals with minor pearly rhombic Dolomite crystals on matrix. The largest Cinnabar measures 1.1 cm. Great aesthetics and quality and certainly from older material in the 1980s. Valued at $700 retail. From the worldwide collection of famed Italian mineral collector, field collector and author, Francesco Bedogne of Sondrio, Italy (Collection #1446). Bedogne wrote dozens of articles and several books about the mineralogy of Italian Alpine localities such as Val Bregaglia, Val Masino, Val Codera, Val Spluga, Valtellina and the famous Val Malenco. He was also the founder of the Valtellinese Mineralogical Institute