Old! Green Willemite, Franklinite & Leucophoenicite Franklin New Jersey

Description

Here offered is a very lovely piece that came out of a collection that was assembled during the first half of the 20th century.  The specimen features really solid pink leucophoenicite on the bottom half of the specimen and a mix of light green willemite and franklinite on the top half.  For some reason, I couldn't get the green willemite color to show up well in the photos.  There is also some lighter green willemite near the bottom banded in with the leucophoenicite.  The reverse side of the specimen has a thin coating of secondary calcite that glows a very strange dark red color under shortwave UV.  Photo 3 shows that side under daylight and #4 is the strange reaction of the calcite coating to shortwave.  The willemite is also highly fluorescent under shortwave.  Specimens like this are hard to come by nowadays and only come out of old collections!
7x7x2.5 cm