Copper-Silver "halfbreed" (classic locale) ex Dr. Barratt Phillips Coll.

Item Description

A sculptural and dramatic silver and copper halfbreed from Copper Country. Two areas of silver are seen on the floater native copper nodule. A dramatic 1.3 cm silver "feather" with more silver dramatically rises up from the top of the copper on the two side views. The end views show this crystal to be a sharp flattened spinel-twin with a nifty near 90-degree bend at the end! The silver at the base looks like a crude three-leaf clover or fleur-de-lis. Halfbreeds form rarely when molten silver and copper get bound together, without alloying or intermixing. Specimens like this, so far as I know, only came from old Michigan mines. This is a classic, old-time and rare halfbreed with a RARE sharp silver crystal. Ex Dr. Barratt Phillips Collection.