[GH85Carrera]

This spectacular 14.79 troy ounce crystalline nugget was listed at auction with a reserve price of $125,000. The nugget is notable both for where and how it was obtained. Retrieved from the 900 Level of the Lower Black Bear Vein, in the Idarado Mine of Telluride, Colorado, the specimen was “high-graded” by a miner that worked in the mine in 1948.






Two women stroll by a line of horse-drawn carriages, New York, 1899.