This group includes 40 samples from Vesuvius-Monte Somma, some of rare beauty. Measures from TN to miniature to small cabinet. Weight approx. 1 kg.
1. Analcime: Transparent and colorless icositetrahedral crystals, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples
2. Anorthite TL: Transparent and colorless complex crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples
3. Anorthite TL: White complex crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples
4. "Apatite": Transparent and colorless elongated crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples
5. Augite: Black monoclinal crystals, Crater Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples
6. Baddeleyite: Green tablets vertically stripped, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples
7. Cuspidine TL: spearheaded pink crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples
8. "Davyna" TL: Vertically, unusually transparent and colorless streaked barrel crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples
9. Diopside: Parallel, yellow-green crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples
10. Dolomite: white silkworms crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples
11. Forsterite TL: semitransparent gray crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples
12. Gypsum: Transparent and colorless monoclinal crystals with green celadonite, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Naples
13. Geikielite: dark complex crystal, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples
14. Ghelenite: square brown crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples
15. "Garnet: crystals rombododecaedrici red - orange, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples
16. "Guarinite" TL: yellow crystal packets, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples
17. Hauyne: crystals and blue granules, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples
18. Hauyne: pseudomorphoses on leucite, quarry Le Novelle, Herculaneum, Naples
19. Hematite: pseudo-hexagonal metal and botoloid crystals, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Naples
20. "Horneblende": flattened and streaked black crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples
21. "Humite" TL: rather transparent brown crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples
22. Hydromagnesite: (Hydrodolomite) white spheres, The Novels, Herculaneum, Naples
23. Lapis Lazulo: small blue mass,, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples
24. Leucite TL: 12 mm crystal, white icositetraedric, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples
25. Magnetite: lead-colored crystal "nail-head", ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples
26. Meionite TL: group of transparent and colorless elongated crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples
27. Microsommite TL: group of silky crystals in barrel, Cava Vitiello, Terzigno, Naples
28. Nepheline TL: Hexagonal white prisms with orange titanite with spear tip, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples
29. Norbergite: Light yellow complex crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples
30. Phillipsite: transparent elongated prismatic crystals with pseudocube of chabazite, Pollena Trocchia, Naples
31. Pseudobrookite: dark red elongated crystals, Lagno Amendolare, Sant'Anastasia, Naples
32. Sanidine: green tablets, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples
33. Sodalite: unusually transparent and colorless rombododecahedric crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples
34. Spinel: black octahedral crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples
35. Spinel: Pink complex crystals, San Vito, Herculaneum, Naples
36. Thomsonite: picturesque group of transparent and colorless crystals, Le Novelle, Herculaneum, Naples
37. Vesuvianite TL: brown crystals on brown garnet, with sodalite, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples
38. Vesuvianite TL: Prismatic brown crystal, with cuspidine, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples
39. Wollastonite: unusually well-elongated white crystals with nepheline, titanite and “garnet”, Le Novelle, Herculaneum, Naples
40. Zircon: blue octahedral crystals, ex coll. Panunzi, Somma-Vesuvius, Herculaneum, Naples