This piece has an unusually 3-dimensional spray and superb color. These specimens came out a few years ago at their best, and most seem to have gone to Steve Smale. From him, this fine miniature went to Francis Benjamin in exchanges. It is illustrated and is important because it has distinct, isolated crystals that fan out nicely from the core of this 3-dimensional spray. Most of these specimens are more "jumbled" or in wheat-sheave-like bundles. These are the best inesites since a small pocket in the early 1980s in South Africa.
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