Fluorite (ex Kay Robertson Collection)

Munstertal, Breisgau-Hochschwarzwald, Freiburg Region, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany
Small Cabinet, 6.5 x 5.1 x 4.3 cm
Start Time: 09/17/2020 8:45:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 09/24/2020 6:55:00 pm (CDT)
Auction Closed
Winning Bid: $66

Item Description

A nice old time Fluorite from the Black Forest area featuring hundreds of tiny, sharp, lustrous, gemmy, soft purple colored cubic crystals of Fluorite measuring up to about 1-2 mm sitting on layers of banded white Barite and grey Quartz matrix. The label accompanying the piece states that the Fluorite crystals are twinned, and while I can see what appear to be a few penetration twins here and there, most of the crystals appear to be single untwinned examples. Ex Kay Robertson Collection (#780). Kay was a prominent California collector, who specialized in European classics. She nearly lived 100 years from April 1920 - March 2020. See the article in the March-April, 2007 Mineralogical Record ( https://www.mineralogicalrecord.com/pdfs/Kay%20Robertson%20Collection.pdf ), and the 50+ page article in the German Magazine "Mineralien Welt" November-December 2017.

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Bidding History

Bid Amount Bid Time
$66 09/24/2020 6:49:36 pm (CDT)
$56 09/24/2020 6:44:30 pm (CDT)
$50 09/24/2020 6:44:30 pm (CDT)
$30 09/23/2020 3:15:34 am (CDT)
$25 09/23/2020 3:15:33 am (CDT)
$20 09/23/2020 3:15:14 am (CDT)
$15 09/23/2020 3:15:14 am (CDT)
$10 09/18/2020 1:27:38 pm (CDT)