Skip to main content

This auction has ended. View lot details

You may also be interested in

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

Three Polished Cabinet Specimens: a Mimetite, a Basalt and a Bloodstone image 1
Three Polished Cabinet Specimens: a Mimetite, a Basalt and a Bloodstone image 2
Three Polished Cabinet Specimens: a Mimetite, a Basalt and a Bloodstone image 3
Three Polished Cabinet Specimens: a Mimetite, a Basalt and a Bloodstone image 4
Three Polished Cabinet Specimens: a Mimetite, a Basalt and a Bloodstone image 5
Lot 1100

Three Polished Cabinet Specimens: a Mimetite, a Basalt and a Bloodstone

26 – 27 October 2020, 11:00 PDT
Los Angeles

Sold for US$57.38 inc. premium

Own a similar item?

Submit your item online for a free auction estimate.

How to sell

Looking for a similar item?

Our Lapidary Works of Art specialists can help you find a similar item at an auction or via a private sale.

Find your local specialist

Ask about this lot

Three Polished Cabinet Specimens: a Mimetite, a Basalt and a Bloodstone

Bilbao Mine, La Blanca, Mun. de Ojo Caliente, Zacatecas, Mexico
A miniature specimen or "toenail", and a rare example of a polished mimetite, revealing a cross-section view of vivid orange crystals, RHC8305, measuring 1 1/2 x 1 1/4 x 1/2 in. Together with a tumbled bloodstone, India, weighing 17.3 grams and measuring 1 1/4 x 1 x 1/2 in; and a polished Basalt, near Pune, Maharashtra, India, RHC7533, measuring 2 x 1 1/4 x 1 1/4 in. (3)

Footnotes

Accompanied by a paper label:
RHC8305:
Acquired 2013 Toenail 23.2 gm
A cut and polished rounded stone showing orange yellow rimmed mimetite with white calcite? Bought the specimen on my way to Tucson from Howard Vargas, who was Glen Vargas's [sic] son. Too bad there was not more of this rough. It would have cut beautiful stones.

Accompanied by a paper label for 7533.

Additional information

Bid now on these items