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Floater crystal of Orthoclase with very sharp crystal forms, with Carlsbad-law twinning, good luster and an unusual degree of transparency for the species.
We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. (Bob) Noble collection, which also contains the label.
Niaslo, Basha Valley, Shigar District, Gilgit-Baltistan (Northern Areas) Pakistan
Specimen size: 3.3 × 2 × 1.2 cm = 1.30” × 0.79” × 0.47”
Price: [SOLD]

JFD46AN8: Orthoclase (Carlsbad twin)

Saying the word Zarzalejo and thinking of Carlsbad twins is pretty much the same thing. Generations of collectors have gone there to scratch around and find little treasures. Let us add that the orthoclases from Zarzalejo tend to be more 'fresh', less weathered, than those from other places.
Zarzalejo, Comarca Sierra Oeste, Community of Madrid Spain
Specimen size: 4.5 × 4.1 × 2.3 cm = 1.77” × 1.61” × 0.91”

Main crystal size: 3.9 × 2.8 cm = 1.54” × 1.10”
Price: [SOLD]

20CRB46: Orthoclase (variety adular), Chlorite

Parallel aggregates of white Orthoclase crystals (variety adularia), with distinct growth striations, perfectly defined faces and edges, and interpenetration twins, all dotted with a multitude of deep green Chlorite crystals. The specimen comes from the former collection (duplicates) of Carles Curto (number 2002.16), whose label and computer file we will send to the buyer.
Sustenhorn, Sandbalm, Voralp Valley, Göscheneralp, Göschenen Valley, Göschenen, Reuss Valley, Uri Switzerland (±2002)
Specimen size: 7.8 × 6.8 × 5.4 cm = 3.07” × 2.68” × 2.13”
Price: [SOLD]

TX10AN1: Orthoclase (variety adularia)

Group on matrix of very sharp Orthoclase crystals (variety adularia), with distinct parallel growths, snow-white, with good lustre. An alpine classic. We will ship the specimen in its original Perky box from the Robert J. Noble collection, which also contains the label, which shows that it was previously in the Melanson collection.
Pailgrat, Hollersbach im Pinzgau, Zell am See District, Salzburg Austria
Specimen size: 3.4 × 2.7 × 2.5 cm = 1.34” × 1.06” × 0.98”

Main crystal size: 2.6 × 1.3 cm = 1.02” × 0.51”
Price: [SOLD]

EXP98AP4: Orthoclase (variety adularia)

Very aerial parallel growths of sharp Orthoclase (adularia variety) crystals, with good luster and a snow-white color. On matrix. It comes from the Senckenberg Museum in Frankfurt and has several old labels with it.
Maderanertal, Amsteg, Uri Switzerland
Specimen size: 7.4 × 5.7 × 4.1 cm = 2.91” × 2.24” × 1.61”
Price: [SOLD]

RM6G2: Orthoclase (variety adularia)

A classic alpine sample (is the variety adularia). A Floater, more clear than usual with a very intense vitreous luster.
Cavradi, Curnera Valley, Tujetsch (Tavetsch), Vorderrhein Valley, Grischun (Grisons; Graubünden) Switzerland
Specimen size: 5.8 × 4 × 3.5 cm = 2.28” × 1.57” × 1.38”
Price: [SOLD]

RP96J3: Orthoclase (variety adularia)

The crystal is considerably transparent and has very well defined faces and edges. It is only partially covered by Chlorite.
The specimen is noted as purchased in 1949 and it is with a manuscript label of Folch we’ll send to the buyer.
Gerenthal, Oberwallis Switzerland (±1949)
Specimen size: 5.7 × 5 × 2.8 cm = 2.24” × 1.97” × 1.10”
Price: [SOLD]

RA27AE4: Orthoclase (variety adularia) with Chlorite

Floater aggregate of very sharp crystals that are translucent white with Chlorite inclusions in some areas and a small Quartz crystal. A Swiss classic of very good quality.
Tiefenbach, Urseren, Uri Switzerland (±1949)
Specimen size: 9 × 8.7 × 5.2 cm = 3.54” × 3.43” × 2.05”

Main crystal size: 8.7 × 4 cm = 3.43” × 1.57”
Price: [SOLD]

RD16K4: Orthoclase (variety adularia) with Chlorite

Manebach twin of two crystals with selective inclusions of Chlorite: some of the faces have the inclusions while others are completely free of them.
Binntal, Wallis Switzerland (1949)
Specimen size: 2.7 × 2.4 × 2.4 cm = 1.06” × 0.94” × 0.94”
Price: [SOLD]

RE16K4: Orthoclase (variety adularia) with Chlorite

Manebach twin of two crystals with selective inclusions of Chlorite: some of the faces have the inclusions while others are completely free of them.
Binntal, Wallis Switzerland (1949)
Specimen size: 2.6 × 2.4 × 2.4 cm = 1.02” × 0.94” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 1.8 × 1.8 cm = 0.71” × 0.71”
Price: [SOLD]

VC37Z4: Orthoclase (variety adularia) with Chlorite

Parallel growths of Orthoclase (variety adularia) crystals that are very bright, translucent, have very well defined faces and edges and are with oriented growths of dark green Chlorite. A Swiss classic.
Central St Gotthard Massif, Leventina, Ticino (Tessin) Switzerland (±1979)
Specimen size: 9.8 × 6.2 × 4.8 cm = 3.86” × 2.44” × 1.89”
Price: €180 / US$191 / ¥29360 / AUD$290

RG14K4: Orthoclase (variety adularia) with Chlorite and Hematite

Parallel growth of sharp crystals of very well defined faces and edges, clean, translucent and bright on one of the sides of the sample and with Chlorite inclusions on the opposite.
Maderanertal, Uri Switzerland
Specimen size: 3.2 × 3 × 2.4 cm = 1.26” × 1.18” × 0.94”

Main crystal size: 2.1 × 1.7 cm = 0.83” × 0.67”
Price: [SOLD]

RF16K4: Orthoclase (variety adularia) with chlorite and Hematite

Parallel growths of adularia crystals of tabular appearance, very rich in chlorite inclusions and also with very bright Hematite inclusions.
Maderanertal, Uri Switzerland
Specimen size: 4.3 × 3.4 × 2.8 cm = 1.69” × 1.34” × 1.10”
Price: [SOLD]

RD71M0: Orthoclase (variety adularia) with Clinochlore

Two very sharp and twinned Orthoclase (variety adularia) crystals, with an excellent color and brilliance, with some inclusions of Clinochlore. On a matrix covered by small adularia and Quartz crystals.
The handwritten Folch label states that it was bought directly from a mountain guide in 1957.
Grossvenediger (northwest), Obersulzbach Valley, Hohe Tauern, Salzburg Austria (±1957)
Specimen size: 14.5 × 11.5 × 11 cm = 5.71” × 4.53” × 4.33”

Main crystal size: 4.3 × 4.3 cm = 1.69” × 1.69”
Price: [SOLD]

TM96H9: Orthoclase (variety adularia) with Clinochlore

Excellent group of crystals with very sharp faces and edges, partially covered by Chlorite and with very marked Baveno twins. Very esthetic.
Valais Switzerland (±1970)
Specimen size: 11.3 × 7.7 × 4 cm = 4.45” × 3.03” × 1.57”
Price: [SOLD]

22TXM13: Orthoclase (variety adularia), Chlorite

Group of Orthoclase crystals (variety adularia) formed by a main group of sharp flattened crystals intertwined with others of lesser dimensions and all of them completely covered by Chlorite crystals that give the specimen a mossy appearance. It comes from the old collection of Robert-Auguste Touchon, one of a batch of pieces from Pizzo Centrale in Switzerland, an area well known to collectors.
Pizzo Centrale, Airolo, Central St Gotthard Massif, Leventina, Ticino (Tessin) Switzerland
Specimen size: 5.1 × 2.6 × 2.6 cm = 2.01” × 1.02” × 1.02”

Main crystal size: 1.7 × 1.7 cm = 0.67” × 0.67”
Price: [SOLD]

NBF76AO5: Orthoclase twinned

Orthoclase crystal with very sharp faces and edges and a very well defined double Baveno-Manebach twin. The specimen comes from the collection of Santiago Jiménez who, especially in the 1980s and '90s, put together an excellent collection with a very good representation of the mineralogy of northern Spain.
Bustarviejo, Comarca Sierra Norte, Community of Madrid Spain
Specimen size: 7.6 × 3.3 × 2.8 cm = 2.99” × 1.30” × 1.10”
Price: [SOLD]

NM58M9: Orthoclase with Albite and Quartz

The pink crystals of Orthoclase are small, very well defined, and have epigenetic growths of Albite. The matrix is also very rich in Albite and has Quartz crystals. The piece is from a well known locality but which has yielded few significant specimens.
La Batllòria, Sant Celoni, Comarca Vallès Oriental, Barcelona, Catalonia / Catalunya Spain
Specimen size: 6.6 × 5.3 × 3.3 cm = 2.60” × 2.09” × 1.30”

Main crystal size: 0.9 × 0.6 cm = 0.35” × 0.24”
Price: [SOLD]

JFD21AN6: Orthoclase with Quartz (variety smoky)

Another proof of Lluís Daunis's good work as a field collector. This time with a specimen from the Sierra de Madrid with very clean and 'fresh' Orthoclase crystals and with Quartz crystals (smoky variety), well separated and quite perpendicular to the Orthoclase crystal plate. It should be noted that I have it listed as Orthoclase and not Microcline as per personal communication from the Geological and Mining Institute of Spain, in Madrid.
(La Cabrera pluton), La Cabrera, Comarca Sierra Norte, Community of Madrid Spain
Specimen size: 10.4 × 9.3 × 3 cm = 4.09” × 3.66” × 1.18”
Price: [SOLD]

DV96AH2: Orthoclase with Quartz (variety smoky)

Polycrystalline growths of Orthoclase crystals with very well defined faces and edges. They are very bright and are partially coating a Quartz crystal.
The Daunis collection was, in the 70’s and the 80’s, a reference for the local prospectors of the Barcelona area.
(La Cabrera pluton), La Cabrera, Comarca Sierra Norte, Community of Madrid Spain (±1970)
Specimen size: 8.9 × 8.8 × 5.3 cm = 3.50” × 3.46” × 2.09”
Price: [SOLD]

2M12: Orthoclase, Albite, Stilbite-Ca, Quartz

The Strzegom granite quarries are a classic locality for pegmatite minerals. In this case, creamy white Orthoclase crystals are seen on a matrix of bright snowy white Albite crystals. These are accompanied by very dark Quartz crystals (smoky variety) and light brown Stilbita-Ca crystals, making the whole an attractive combination.
Strzegom, Strzegom-Sobótka Massif, Świdnica District, Lower Silesia Poland
Specimen size: 15.3 × 12.2 × 3.2 cm = 6.02” × 4.80” × 1.26”
Price: [SOLD]

FD6B9: Twinned Orthoclase

The Carlsbad twin name came from the Carlsbad locality in the Czech Republic. This Orthoclase also came from this locality and "guess what?": it is twinned by the Carlsbad law. A "type locality twin" from an old glorious European locality.
Karlovy Vary (Carlsbad), Karlovy Vary District, Karlovy Vary Region, Bohemia Czech Republic
Specimen size: 6 × 3.2 × 2 cm = 2.36” × 1.26” × 0.79”
Price: [SOLD]

HM60DA: Twinned Orthoclase

Floater Orthoclase crystal with Carlsbad-law twinning, very well defined and complete crystal forms, and of considerable size compared to others known from here. The locality is little known to collectors.
Former collection of Lluís Daunis
Béjar, Comarca Sierra de Béjar, Salamanca, Castile and León Spain
Specimen size: 4.8 × 3.7 × 1.7 cm = 1.89” × 1.46” × 0.67”
Price: [SOLD]

FE16: Twinned Orthoclase

Nice classic Carlsbad twinned Orthoclase - very sharp and good luster.
Zarzalejo, Comarca Sierra Oeste, Community of Madrid Spain
Specimen size: 5.2 × 4.6 × 2.2 cm = 2.05” × 1.81” × 0.87”
Price: [SOLD]

FC58K0: Twinned Orthoclase

Floater crystal, complete and doubly terminated, that forms a very well defined Carlsbad twin.
Zarzalejo, Comarca Sierra Oeste, Community of Madrid Spain
Specimen size: 3.5 × 3.1 × 1.5 cm = 1.38” × 1.22” × 0.59”
Price: [SOLD]

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