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English: Calcite
Locality: Webb City, Webb City-Carterville-Prosperity Field, Tri-State District, Jasper County, Missouri, USA (Locality at mindat.org)
Size: 22 x 13 x 13 cm.
Webb City calcites are almost a myth in collecting - so few exist to be seen, and so few good ones exist to be owned. This is a fish-tail twinned crystal of huge size, about the size of a football. These are of a rare, unique style found at the turn of the 1900s, in the oldest workings of what was to become the famed Tri-State district in later years. This area today is a disaster site with slumping, empty old cities atop the old mines. This particular specimen would be outstanding from any location, but I think the historic interest as a bonus. It is a nearly pristine, huge twinned calcite with a glowing lavender-pink color when even moderately backlit...presenting just an amazing visual impact without knowing anything about the mineral or locality itself. The only other one like it that I have seen was in the Smithsonian's long-held exhibit on Tri-State material (second photo). I am told by old-timer collectors that most of this material back in the day when found was split along the cleavage planes to make beautiful calcite cleavage chunks for fun and play. Most miners split them in pieces for gifts, paperweights and the like. I had no idea something like this existed on the market to be had, even...until I saw it in the Robert Whitmore collection. He obtained it in an old collection he thinks, sometime in the 1960s. To this day, these remain unique in the world and a major US classic. Ex. Robert Whitmore Collection. Joe Budd photo.
Deutsch: Calcit
Fundort: Webb City, Webb City-Carterville-Prosperity Field, Tri-State District, Jasper County, Missouri, Vereinigte Staaten (Fundort bei mindat.org)
Größe: 22 x 13 x 13 cm.
Date before March 2010
date QS:P,+2010-03-00T00:00:00Z/7,P1326,+2010-03-00T00:00:00Z/10
Source http://www.mindat.org/photo-251001.html
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Robert M. Lavinsky  (1972–)  wikidata:Q56247090
 
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Robert Matthew Lavinsky; Lavinsky, Robert M.; Lavinsky R M
Description American mineral collector and mineral dealer
iRocks.com (Mineralogical Record)
Date of birth 13 December 1972 Edit this at Wikidata
Location of birth Columbus
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