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Lot 1247

Faceted Quartz with Phantom, Ex. Ed Swoboda Collection

26 – 27 October 2020, 11:00 PDT
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Faceted Quartz with Phantom, Ex. Ed Swoboda Collection

Seminario farm, Joaquim Felicio, Minas Gerais, Brazil
An example of nearly optically clear quartz, faceted in a "portrait cut" to best display the "Christmas tree-shaped" phantom inclusion. Of suitable size for mounting as a pendant, RHC8314. Weighing approximately 44.14 carats and measuring 24.13 x 19.13 x 8.96 mm

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With a paper label:
RHC8314:
Acquired 2012 Thumbnail NB 98.8 gm.
A transparent faceted stone with a sharp green phantom rowing in it along the long axis. Got the specimen as part of the tons of cutting rough and specimens that I hauled out of Ed Swoboda's house over the period of about a year. Ed was a manufacturing jeweler and promoter of mining ventures and had accumulated this material over a period of decades.

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