Leadhillite Beer Cellar Mine, Granby Field, Tri-State District,...
Leadhillite Beer Cellar Mine, Granby Field, Tri-State District, Newton Co., Missouri, USA "A cluster of intergrown hexagonal intergrown pale green crystals growing in [sic] echelon in a cast after galena. Traded the specimen from the George Vaux collection at Bryn Mawr when Harold Arndt was curator there. The scale under the specimen is an inch with a rule at one cm." - Rock H. Currier Any Leadhillite from Granby is rare and valuable by definition. They just didn't make that many of them and I suspect that some of those got turned into bullets or battery plates or ... whatever. The Vaux attribution corresponds well with the short period that these came out. Interesting that it is also a pseudomorph: actually an epimorph for you nit-pickers out there. Speaking of nit-picking, Currier's description is proof that he was multi-lingual: he could do typo's in more than one language. There is a custom acrylic base. Overall Measurements: 1.3 x 1.3 x 0.6 inches (3.3 x 3.3 x 1.4 cm) Offered at no reserve Provenance: Ex. Bryn Mawr College, Ex. George Vaux Collections [RHC #3042, acquired 1973] MinID 09E-11L [Scale: 1 inch, with mark at 1 cm]
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Leadhillite Beer Cellar Mine, Granby Field, Tri-State District, Newton Co., Missouri, USA "A cluster of intergrown hexagonal intergrown pale green crystals growing in [sic] echelon in a cast after galena. Traded the specimen from the George Vaux collection at Bryn Mawr when Harold Arndt was curator there. The scale under the specimen is an inch with a rule at one cm." - Rock H. Currier Any Leadhillite from Granby is rare and valuable by definition. They just didn't make that many of them and I suspect that some of those got turned into bullets or battery plates or ... whatever. The Vaux attribution corresponds well with the short period that these came out. Interesting that it is also a pseudomorph: actually an epimorph for you nit-pickers out there. Speaking of nit-picking, Currier's description is proof that he was multi-lingual: he could do typo's in more than one language. There is a custom acrylic base. Overall Measurements: 1.3 x 1.3 x 0.6 inches (3.3 x 3.3 x 1.4 cm) Offered at no reserve Provenance: Ex. Bryn Mawr College, Ex. George Vaux Collections [RHC #3042, acquired 1973] MinID 09E-11L [Scale: 1 inch, with mark at 1 cm]
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