Spessartine Garnet on Smoky Quartz with Feldspar

Item Description

The Wushan Spessartines are some of the most impressive Garnet specimens from any locality in the last 20+ years. They are incredibly popular among dealers and collectors because they exhibit a rarely seen combination of razor sharp, crystals with brilliant luster, bright color, excellent gemminess and wonderful form. This is a gorgeous three-dimensional display specimen featuring many very lustrous, sharp, gemmy, deep reddish-orange color trapezohedra sitting on a prismatic, well-formed, hexagonal, sharp, Smoky Quartz crystal and white Feldspar (either Microcline or Albite) matrix. The largest Spessartine is about 3 mm across and the Smoky measures 3.6 cm long. I really love the fact that the Spessartines are so lustrous and smooth - not at all pitted or dull like many Spessartines from various world localities. It wasn't long ago that we saw many of these Spessartines on the market, and now few of them seem to be available so if you want an attractive display specimen of these well-known Garnets, don't miss out on this one.