Description

Exceptional set of red and automorphic almandine garnet crystals on typical gangue associated with some chlorite quartz crystals.

Exceptional for their size and quality, but also for their pedigree: It is an old specimen of the naturalist dealer Deyrolle of Paris. Superb handwritten label and box of the XIXth century.

Garnet crystals, from the region of Zermatt in the Valais in Switzerland.

Here is a video of these historic garnet crystals from Switzerland:

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