MOSCHELLANDSBERGITE with SIDERITE

SPECIMEN DESCRIPTION

A thin vein on one side of this miniature specimen contains prominent silvery metallic blebs of Mochellandsbergite to 2 x 3 mm coated in bladed microcrystals of Siderite. From Landsberg (Moschellandsberg) in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, an old handwritten collection number (no. 2152) attached to this specimen relates it to Joseph Neeld's (1789-1856) collection which was dispersed by Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd in the late 1990s. A great historic specimen with fine pedigree from one of Europe's great Mercury-producing regions.