Watch a video of this specimen by following the Vimeo link below: https://vimeo.com/1139862307/6292f91e34 Here is a dramatic large specimen of glassy quartz with some schist inclusions from the Arkansas quartz mines! A beautiful decorative specimen. Ex coll. Jean-Louis Gérard. J-L. Gérard was a collector with many interests, ranging from maritime objects to paintings, and from antique scientific instruments to minerals! Over several decades of collecting, he gathered tens of thousands of items in his family estate located in the Loir Valley. The recent sale of the estate and the collections was a major event.