Clinochlore, Magnetite, Chondrodite Tilly Foster Iron Mine, Brewster,...
Clinochlore, Magnetite, Chondrodite Tilly Foster Iron Mine, Brewster, Town of Southeast, Putnam Co., New York, USA "A cluster of dark green hexagonal crystals of clinochlore that have been worked by hand out of the enclosing calcite with a one inch dodecahedral magnetite of about an inch on one end of the specimen with broken reddish crystals of chondrodite here and there on the specimen. Traded from Bryn Mawr with Harold Arndt. From the George Vaux collection. I have never seen a better one. All the calcite has been removed carefully by hand and you can still see some of it down around the bases of the clinochlore crystals." - Rock H. Currier We are in shock! I don't know how Rock got through that description without a typo. Punctuation was/is a little dodgy, but this is way better than most, and the specimen is too. The Tilly Foster Iron Mine is an old-timer among U.S. specimen localities and it produced some very fine specimens of Clinochlore, Magnetite and Chondrodite. Heavy emphasis here on the past tense: the place is kaput for specimens. These days the only places you see them are in old collections, and, in museums. Vaux acquired this specimen, in October of 1894, from E. P. Hancock, whose collection would later become one of the "backbone" collections of Harvard. A custom acrylic base accompanies the specimen, along with the original Vaux label. Overall Measurements: 4.3 x 2.4 x 2.2 inches (11.0 x 6.0 x 5.5 cm) Offered at no reserve Provenance: Ex. Bryn Mawr College, Ex. George Vaux [acquired from E. P. Hancock October 1894] Collections [RHC #1889, acquired 1975] MinID UVQ-3XT [Scale: 1 inch, with mark at 1 cm]
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Clinochlore, Magnetite, Chondrodite Tilly Foster Iron Mine, Brewster, Town of Southeast, Putnam Co., New York, USA "A cluster of dark green hexagonal crystals of clinochlore that have been worked by hand out of the enclosing calcite with a one inch dodecahedral magnetite of about an inch on one end of the specimen with broken reddish crystals of chondrodite here and there on the specimen. Traded from Bryn Mawr with Harold Arndt. From the George Vaux collection. I have never seen a better one. All the calcite has been removed carefully by hand and you can still see some of it down around the bases of the clinochlore crystals." - Rock H. Currier We are in shock! I don't know how Rock got through that description without a typo. Punctuation was/is a little dodgy, but this is way better than most, and the specimen is too. The Tilly Foster Iron Mine is an old-timer among U.S. specimen localities and it produced some very fine specimens of Clinochlore, Magnetite and Chondrodite. Heavy emphasis here on the past tense: the place is kaput for specimens. These days the only places you see them are in old collections, and, in museums. Vaux acquired this specimen, in October of 1894, from E. P. Hancock, whose collection would later become one of the "backbone" collections of Harvard. A custom acrylic base accompanies the specimen, along with the original Vaux label. Overall Measurements: 4.3 x 2.4 x 2.2 inches (11.0 x 6.0 x 5.5 cm) Offered at no reserve Provenance: Ex. Bryn Mawr College, Ex. George Vaux [acquired from E. P. Hancock October 1894] Collections [RHC #1889, acquired 1975] MinID UVQ-3XT [Scale: 1 inch, with mark at 1 cm]
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