Massive and heavy specimen mostly consisting of native arsenic, partly with botryoidal forms, and rich portions of deep red, crystalline proustite. An excellent and rich silver ore specimen from classic Alberoda in Saxony.

Comes with old H. Maucher label and corresponding number sticker.
Wilhelm Maucher (1879-1930) was a prominent mineral dealer in Munich, Germany. He established his own independent mineral specimen dealership in Munich at Schellingstrasse 73 in September 1909.
Wilhelm Maucher's sons inherited his love of geology and mineralogy, and each obtained professional degrees in the field. His daughter Elisabeth, however, was the one who eventually took over her father's mineral business following his death on May 4, 1930. When she married Hans Anneser in 1936, a change in company name was required, but she did not want to give up the association with the Maucher name, and so her brother Herbert Maucher (1906-1982) allowed his name to be used (thus the labels change from "W. Maucher" to "H. Maucher" in 1936).
In December 1944 the shop at Schellingstr. 73 was destroyed by Allied bombing. After the war Elisabeth reopened the shop at Gleichmannstr. 9 in the Pasing neighborhood of Munich, under the new name Kristallgarten Maucher. Labels thereafter read "Maucher, Pasing" (cit. Minrec), thus the specimen can be dated between 1936 and 1946.