Description

Remarkable smoky sugar gwindel quartz crystal from Talèfre in the Mont Blanc Massif, Chamonix, Haute-Savoie, France.

A sugar quartz, called a “closed gwindel”, corresponds to the first growth phase of a gwindel. Windels are rare twisted quartz.

Sugars are particularly rare and highly sought after by Swiss and French crystal makers.

This specimen has a more than respectable height.

Ex Davide Caresio collection.

Here is a video of this smoky gwindel quartz crystal from the Mont Blanc massif:

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