unusual orange Quartz with iron oxide coating (Hefendehl Coll.)

Jinkouhe District, Leshan, Sichuan, China
Large Cabinet, 18.0 x 13.0 x 8.9 cm
Start Time: 05/19/2022 7:00:00 pm (CDT)
End Time: 05/26/2022 6:40:00 pm (CDT)
Auction Closed
Winning Bid: $1,150

Item Description

Lovely golden-yellow films of iron oxides preferentially coat the striking large sculptural spray of lustrous, transparent to translucnet quartz points. highly unusual! The dominating large central quartz is 7.2 cm long. In great shape overall. The large quartz has a modest bit of termination edge wear and the minimal periphery wear is restricted to one side. Ex Hefendehl Collection. Kurt Hefendehl was a well-known collector in the mineral world all over Europe with worldwide contacts to dealers and collectors. He started seriously collecting in the age of 14 and his great and various worldwide collection reached a number of over 6000 pieces. He was incredibly mineralogically active, until shortly before his passing in 2020 in the age of 82 years. His collection had, considering that high number of pieces, an unusual high quality standard from most worldwide localities. He particularly specialized in all classics; and the minerals of the Black Forest where he spent many visits collecting (that and the Germany subcollection went to his good friend Wolfgang Wendel. The Italian suite went to Marini). We have the rest to offer over the next 2-3 years, through our platforms. We have lost a great friend and connoisseur, a true mineral collector of the Golden Age. This impressive Chinese piece has fine 360-degree viewability and is from 1990s to 2000s finds. Specimens of this size and rich color are seldom on the market today.

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Bidding History

Bid Amount Bid Time
$1,150 05/26/2022 6:32:13 pm (CDT)
$1,100 05/26/2022 6:32:13 pm (CDT)
$1,010 05/26/2022 6:30:59 pm (CDT)
$985 05/26/2022 6:30:58 pm (CDT)
$925 05/26/2022 6:28:51 pm (CDT)
$900 05/26/2022 6:28:51 pm (CDT)
$800 05/26/2022 6:26:13 pm (CDT)
$775 * 05/26/2022 6:26:00 pm (CDT)
$775 * 05/26/2022 6:26:00 pm (CDT)
$575 05/26/2022 6:20:40 pm (CDT)
$550 05/26/2022 6:20:40 pm (CDT)
$526 05/26/2022 6:09:02 pm (CDT)
$501 05/26/2022 6:09:02 pm (CDT)
$341 05/26/2022 6:00:13 pm (CDT)
$331 05/26/2022 6:00:13 pm (CDT)
$310 05/26/2022 3:43:17 pm (CDT)
$300 05/26/2022 3:43:17 pm (CDT)
$180 05/23/2022 8:54:09 pm (CDT)
$170 05/23/2022 8:54:09 pm (CDT)
$160 05/21/2022 10:51:17 am (CDT)
$150 05/21/2022 10:51:17 am (CDT)
$50 05/21/2022 10:04:41 am (CDT)
$45 05/21/2022 10:04:40 am (CDT)
$15 05/21/2022 2:16:18 am (CDT)
$10 05/21/2022 12:48:21 am (CDT)
* Proxy Bid Battle: In the event of two customers inputting matching proxy bids, the leading bid goes to the earliest of the two proxy bids. Tie winners are shown in bold.