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Masterpieces Of The Earth Presents
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The
Richard Berger Collection
More outstanding pieces from The Collection...
Spectacular dark smoky quartz crystals growing out of
alabaster white quartz. This combination is rarely ever seen.
Four crystal clusters from the same pocket are part of
the collection and each is uniquely different and presents
beautifully, either by itself or together. From
Minas Gerais, Brazil. Approx. 180 million years old.
Dimensions:
56"h x 46"w x 24"d
Estimated Wt: 550 lbs. to 650 lbs.
"A fabulous
collection of the best."
Professor Edwin Roedder, Emeritus Director of
Earth and Planetary Sciences, Harvard University
A pyrite crystal cluster with highly unusual habits of
sphalerite
crystals. One side is peppered with exotically shaped
sphalerite while the other (below) is nearly
all lustrous pyrite. Huazala Mine, Peruvian Andes.
Dimensions: 8"h x 5.5"w x 6"d
Estimated Wt: 20 lbs. to 30 lbs.
A small section of the concretion gallery
which houses the most
extensive collection of Fontainebleau concretions
available anywhere
Richard acquired the largest discovery found since the
17th Century and monumental specimens from
his collection are now in the permanent collections of the
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History, The Smithsonian
National Museum of Natural History, and the
Houston Museum of Science, along with several other
museums and numerous private collections around the world.
A more than two ton giant
quartz crystal, discovered in the early
1980s in Namibia, S.W. Africa. It is one of the oldest
giant crystals on the planet, dating back 520 million years
which
is 250 million years older than the earliest dinosaurs.
Dimensions: 50"w x 57"h x 41"d
Estimated Wt: 4,200 lbs.
A stunning
cluster of purple fluorite crystals stacked on one another
with a
lustrous grouping of white quartz. From
La Viesca, Spain.
Dimensions: 14"w x 8.5"d x 12.5"h
Estimated Wt: 65 lbs. to 75 lbs.
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"Richard Berger has what is considered
the most
spectacular private collection of giant natural crystals
- and fossils - in the world."
NBC
Evening Program, Seattle, Washington
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A beautiful fossilized turtle, 97% to 98% original
fossil bone,
on a matrix of textured limestone. This specimen was found
in a quarry in southwestern Wyoming and dates
back 52 million years.
This turtle was an adult male
determined by the protuberances radiating from its carapace.
There was not sufficient limestone matrix
surrounding the fossil when it was found so it was
laid into adjoining matrix in the same quarry
Dimensions: 6 feet
high x 7.14 feet wide x 7.5 inches deep
(including frame)
Estimated Wt: 425 lbs.
Modern art from the ancient earth. A twin calcite
crystal coated
in hundreds of sparkling drusy calcite crystals and perched
on curvilinear white quartz stalactites.
From
Madhya Pradesh, Khargone district, India.
Dimensions:
6"w x 3"d x 12"h
Estimated Wt: 3 lbs. to 4 lbs.
A mountainous dark smoky quartz crystal growing out of
alabaster white quartz. One of four crystal clusters
from the same pocket that are part of this collection.
Each one is uniquely different and
presents fabulously either by themselves or together. From
Minas Gerais, Brazil. Approx. 180 million years old.
Dimensions: 31"h x
27"w x 18"d
Estimated Wt: 1400 lbs. to 1600 lbs.
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"Your life's work is a brilliant
testimony
to the greatness of Mother Earth"
Bob Bishop, former Chairman and CEO of Silicon Graphics,
Inc,
recipient of the NASA Distinguished Public Service Medal
and President of ICES Foundation, Geneva, Switzerland
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One of the two
largest "natural sculpture" Fontainebleau
concretions in the world. Two million years old. France.
Dimensions: 54"w x 27"d x 64.5"h (including 7.5" base)
Estimated Wt: 3,600 lbs. to 4,200 lbs.
(Close up below)
A natural
crystal fluorite sphere perched on a bed of lustrous
calcite and quartz crystals. From Madhya Pradesh,
Khargone district, India.
Dimensions: 6"w
x 5.25"d x 7"h
Estimated Wt: 4 lbs. to 6 lbs.
A 360
degree spray of near transparent quartz crystals
in a brilliant cluster that has no visible matrix.
Viewed from any angle on any side it
presents fabulously with crystals spilling down
to the bottom edges of the piece.
From Collier Creek Mine, Arkansas
Dimensions:
26"w x 24.5"d x 14.5"h
Estimated Wt: 125 lbs.
Video of
Arkansas quartz cluster
Richard Berger and his wife Miriam Dyak on CBS Sunday
Morning
(A national broadcast program on CBS viewed by
several million people)
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"The collection in its entirety is dazzling. It would be a
unique and highly-impactful addition to any
community,
but it belongs at Seattle Center.
As our region’s cultural, artistic, intellectual,
and
entertainment hub with a mission to delight
and inspire the human spirit to build stronger
communities, Seattle Center is the natural
home for the Masterpieces of the Earth Museum."
Will Daugherty, President and CEO of Pacific
Science Center
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If you are
interested in finding/creating a permanent home for this
world treasure where it can be viewed and
experienced by millions of children and adults over time,
please feel free to contact Richard at rb.masterpiecesoftheearth.com.
And if you are
interested in individual specimens for your museum or
private collection and would like to arrange to see
the gallery, please feel free to let us know and
we can arrange a private showing.
