Vesuvianite (Romero Collection)

Sierra de Cruces, Sierra Mojada Mun., Coahuila, Mexico
Ex. Dr. Miguel Romero
Small Cabinet, 8.5 x 4.8 x 4.6 cm
Start Time: 01/30/2025 7:00:00 pm (CST)
End Time: 02/08/2025 6:33:00 pm (CST)
Auction Closed
Winning Bid: $666

Item Description

A significant crystallized vesuvianite of textbook habit, awesome old locality, and great provenance from the most important Mexican mineral collection ever put together in Mexico (or ever, perhaps). A huge 8.5 cm adamantine crystal displays well despite some small dings towards the base. Plus, it has a sweet associated Grossular crystal indicative of the local. When these large mustard-yellow Vesuvianites and associated Garnets first came out, a California dealer obfuscated the locality. Hence these occasionally being ascribed to “Lake Jaco”. The associated University of Arizona Dr. Miguel Romero label notes “Choacilla, Zaragoza” as the locality, though this is probably a combination of a misspelling and an abbreviation for Coahuila de Zaragoza. A startlingly LARGE example, and finely crystallized! This specimen comes from the Dr. Miguel Romero Collection (https://mineralogicalrecord.com/labels.asp?colid=792), the major Mexican collection of modern history, which we had the good fortune to purchase in 2008. We also worked with the Mineralogical Record to produce a book about his collection, available digitally at https://www.irocks.com/e-book-romero. Valued $1800.

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Bidding History

Bid Amount Bid Time
$666 02/08/2025 6:29:37 pm (CST)
$650 02/08/2025 6:29:37 pm (CST)
$641 02/08/2025 6:27:08 pm (CST)
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$591 02/07/2025 11:02:15 pm (CST)
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$505 02/02/2025 2:07:33 pm (CST)
$495 02/02/2025 2:07:33 pm (CST)
$485 02/02/2025 2:07:30 pm (CST)
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