Sulfur (fine classic crystals)

Item Description

Here we have an excellent small cabinet sized specimen of the famous, classic electric yellow colored Sulfur crystals from the Cianciana Sulphur Mines, Sicily, Italy. The main focus of this specimen is the superb, sharp, doubly-terminated, well--formed, glowing yellow color, textbook crystal of Sulfur surrounded by smaller Sulfur crystals of equal quality, free of matrix. The main Sulfur measures 3.7 cm at its longest dimension and very gemmy when backlit. The piece is nearly a complete "floater" with no major damage that I can find with the naked eye. A really showy and excellent quality display specimen of what are the most famous Sulfur crystals in the world.  Priced at $3,000 in the inventory. For reference, this species 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."