Big colorful fluorescent Franklin combo + Hardystonite!

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SPECIMEN: Hardystonite, Calcite, Willemite (fl-SW), Franklinite SOURCE: Franklin, New Jersey WEIGHT: 3 lb. 7 oz. APPROX. SIZE: 6 1/4 X 4 X 4 in. 's a very nice shortwave fluorescent with Franklin Willemite (green) and just a few Hardystonite blebs (blue), in a Calcite (red) matrix contrasting beautifully with the nonfluorescent Franklinite and other minerals - check out the photos, this is a beauty! The UV pics are taken under medium-power shortwave UV sources using appropriate Hoya filters, but t could also be some source reflection. 's your chance to bring a beautiful rarity to your fluorescent Franklin collection. Thank you for viewing this listing! Incidentally, I will be continually adding more specimens to my eBay store and putting others up for auction; please check them out when you have a chance. SPECIAL FREE SHIPPING OFFER: Anyone purchasing two or more items via the "buy-it-now" option will receive free USPS Priority Mail shipping and insurance (within the USA only) for those items and any others won which can be reasonably combined with them (larger items added to free "buy-it-now" shipments may require a small additional charge). International buyers of two or more "buy-it-now" specimens will have the international handling fee waived, and receive a discount on the actual cost of shipping. The fine print: I prefer Paypal payments, but money orders and checks (US funds only, please) are OK too; checks must clear before shipment for new buyers or those with low feedback ratings. All shipments within the USA will use USPS Priority Mail insured; the cost of shipping this specimen is dependent on your zip code, and can be determined by using eBay's shipping calculator (my zip code is 19087). I do not add any handling charges within the USA. International shipments can be sent surface, air, or Global Priority mail at the buyer's option; in addition to the actual shipping cost, a $5.00 international handling fee per shipment will be charged, regardless of the number of specimens included. I will hold specimens to consolidate shipments (and save on shipping costs); however, the purchase price of all items held for more than two weeks should be paid when the request to hold the specimens is made. All items are sold "as is" and all sales are final, so please email me with any questions you have on this item (). If any item doesn't meet your expectations, it may be returned within 14 days for a refund of the purchase price only; this means you will have paid for the shipping (both ways). Also, since all items bought and paid for are generally shipped within one business day, if you would like me to hold shipping for additional purchases (or any other reason), please let me know via email before sending payment. ULTRAVIOLET PHOTO NOTES: Accurately representing the true colors of these specimens under UV light through digital photography is very tricky, and dependent on many factors, including UV source lighting, background, ambient light, distance from lamp to specimen, camera characteristics, and others, even the type of monitor you use to view them. I try very hard to make sure that all photos accurately represent the way the specimens look to me under my UV lamps; however, past comments from customers indicate that the most common problem they have seen on eBay from most sellers of fluorescents (including me!) is the introduction of a decidedly blue tint to non-fluorescent or mildly fluorescent portions of the specimens photographed. The problem occurs under both longwave and shortwave UV, but is worst under unfiltered BLB source illumination; I use appropriate longwave and shortwave filters on all of my lamps, but some blue may creep in anyway on some photos. If you see a blue tint in any of the photos which is not specifically referred to in the text description, you should assume that it is a spurious reflection from my UV sources. Also, any tiny bright blue flecks not mentioned in the descriptive text are probably lin... read more

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