Fully formed large quartz crystal within a crystal???

[Guest guest]

I bought this crystal on ebay for $10 - no particular reason other than it just

appealed to me at the moment. It arrived today, and I am completely floored by

it. When I was looking at the pictures on Ebay, I didn't realize what I was

seeing. Now that I have it in my hands, it's literally making my heart pound

and my hands sweat.

 

See slideshow here: (if the link carries over 2 lines, you might have to cut

and paste to get the whole link)

 

http://s32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/Santa-C/qtz/?albumview=slideshow

 

It's a 6 " long, half-pound Dow-ish configuration with a little tip damage.

There's a " bite " taken out of the side of the crystal. The " bite " out of the

side of the crystal in the last picture reveals the clean shoulder of a

full-sized perfectly formed crystal hiding within, only about 1/3 cm under the

surface of the main crystal!

 

In the 4th of the four pictures in the slideshow above, you can see two of the

straight sides of the interior crystal, and, slightly darker and toward to upper

right of the " bite " , you can see part of one of the slanted faces of the

interior crystal's point. The visible portion of the left-most interior vertical

face is about 1.3 cm wide, the visible portion of the right vertical face is

about 1 cm wide, and the visible portion of the top slanted face is 3/4 cm tall.

The depth of the " bite " - ie the amount of quartz material that was layered

between the surface of the outer crystal and the surface of the inner crystal -

varies from 1/4 cm to almost 1/2 cm. There are also other smaller

manifestations in this crystal, but I've never seen such a thing as this big one

before. I've seen crystals with damage to them before, but NEVER one that

revealed a portion of a clean large fully-formed crystal inside! The remainder

of the interior crystal can NOT be seen as a ghost from the undamaged side of

the crystal - only from the hole. It's like this interior crystal just decided

to coat itself with more quartz material, then decided that it wanted a window.

 

This may be a common occurance with you who are wiser in the ways of crystals

than I, but I am floored and, for some reason, humbled, by this incredible

crystal-within-a-crystal.

 

A final note - I just pulled out the magnifying glass to look at the interior

crystal most closely... the visible surfaces of the interior crystal's face are

covered in tiny recordkeepers. A surface texture was obvious without the

magnifying glass, but when magnified they are definitely tiny little triangles.

I've found no record-keepers on the surface of the outer crystal, though there

are many other etchings, " bar-codes " , " skyscrapers " , " mountain ranges " and the

like.

 

Curiouser and curiouser... Opinions, comments, and any other education you might

pass along are greatly appreciated.

 

 

-Keri

[Guest guest]

It looks like a " phantom crystal " to me. But I have little knowledge right

now, so maybe someone else can confirm. It's really cool!! $10 seems like

a bargain for a phantom.

Erin

 

On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:05 PM, keric_74121 <keri-c wrote:

 

>

>

> I bought this crystal on ebay for $10 - no particular reason other than it

> just appealed to me at the moment. It arrived today, and I am completely

> floored by it. When I was looking at the pictures on Ebay, I didn't realize

> what I was seeing. Now that I have it in my hands, it's literally making my

> heart pound and my hands sweat.

>

> See slideshow here: (if the link carries over 2 lines, you might have to

> cut and paste to get the whole link)

>

> http://s32.photobucket.com/albums/d42/Santa-C/qtz/?albumview=slideshow

>

> It's a 6 " long, half-pound Dow-ish configuration with a little tip damage.

> There's a " bite " taken out of the side of the crystal. The " bite " out of the

> side of the crystal in the last picture reveals the clean shoulder of a

> full-sized perfectly formed crystal hiding within, only about 1/3 cm under

> the surface of the main crystal!

>

> In the 4th of the four pictures in the slideshow above, you can see two of

> the straight sides of the interior crystal, and, slightly darker and toward

> to upper right of the " bite " , you can see part of one of the slanted faces

> of the interior crystal's point. The visible portion of the left-most

> interior vertical face is about 1.3 cm wide, the visible portion of the

> right vertical face is about 1 cm wide, and the visible portion of the top

> slanted face is 3/4 cm tall. The depth of the " bite " - ie the amount of

> quartz material that was layered between the surface of the outer crystal

> and the surface of the inner crystal - varies from 1/4 cm to almost 1/2 cm.

> There are also other smaller manifestations in this crystal, but I've never

> seen such a thing as this big one before. I've seen crystals with damage to

> them before, but NEVER one that revealed a portion of a clean large

> fully-formed crystal inside! The remainder of the interior crystal can NOT

> be seen as a ghost from the undamaged side of the crystal - only from the

> hole. It's like this interior crystal just decided to coat itself with more

> quartz material, then decided that it wanted a window.

>

> This may be a common occurance with you who are wiser in the ways of

> crystals than I, but I am floored and, for some reason, humbled, by this

> incredible crystal-within-a-crystal.

>

> A final note - I just pulled out the magnifying glass to look at the

> interior crystal most closely... the visible surfaces of the interior

> crystal's face are covered in tiny recordkeepers. A surface texture was

> obvious without the magnifying glass, but when magnified they are definitely

> tiny little triangles. I've found no record-keepers on the surface of the

> outer crystal, though there are many other etchings, " bar-codes " ,

> " skyscrapers " , " mountain ranges " and the like.

>

> Curiouser and curiouser... Opinions, comments, and any other education you

> might pass along are greatly appreciated.

>

> -Keri

>

>

>

 

 

 

[Guest guest]

Thank you, Erin - an " exposed phantom " , I guess we could say? A very small

attached companion point exhibits the same kind of small shallow hole in the

crystal's surface exposing the smooth surface of a crystal within, but the

" shoulder " of the interior crystal is not exposed on the small one as it is in

the main body.

 

It's almost as if something had dripped on the side of the crystal in those two

places, dissolving the outer surfaces in those two places but leaving the

surfaces of the interior crystal undamaged - perhaps an acid drip that dissolved

the outer surface, but some chemical difference in the interior crystal that

made it impervious to the drip? I have no idea how it was created, but I'm

having fun with the curiosity of it, nevertheless. So far I have found no one

who has seen one like this before.

 

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(in the group's photo files, under " Keri's Other Rocks " .)

 

I appreciate the insight of anyone who might have experience with something like

this.

 

-Keri

 

 

 

, " Erin R. " <figure1789

wrote:

>

> It looks like a " phantom crystal " to me. But I have little knowledge right

> now, so maybe someone else can confirm. It's really cool!! $10 seems like

> a bargain for a phantom.

> Erin

>

> On Fri, Mar 19, 2010 at 1:05 PM, keric_74121 <keri-c wrote: