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Calcite

Ex H. Maucher, Munich, Germany
With Antique Label

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Description
Locality: 
St Andreasberg, Goslar, Lower Saxony, Germany
Class: 
Crystals on Matrix
Size Range: 
Miniature (4.5-7 cm)
Size: 
5.5 × 6 × 3.5 cm
Largest Crystal: 
0.80cm
Weight: 
124.00gr
Description

A classic from Sankt Andreasberg, Harz Mountains, Germany: The specimen features a lawn of sharp tabular, black calcite on white to grey massive calcite matrix.

Comes with old Maucher label. Wilhelm Maucher was a prominent mineral dealer in Munich, Germany, born May 28, 1879. 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).

Mineral Data
What's on the rock

Calcite

Polymorph of: 
Formula: 
CaCO3
Strunz: 
5.AB.05
Crystal System: 
Trigonal
Hardness: 
3.0
Streak: 
White

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