Topaz – Tepetate, Mun. de Villa de Arriaga, San Luis Potosi, Mexico
 Former Pichler Collection, acquired in 1967

Historic, sharp-edged red topaz with wonderful shine and a flawless, intense color. The 4.4 cm long crystal has a beautifully crystallized and undamaged, tapered end surface.
The color is typically red-brown and wonderfully intense for the location where it was found.
The crystal is partly covered with rhyolite matrix on which small hematites have grown.
A particularly aesthetic and now rare collector's item from Mexico in the sought-after quality!