CM03 Silver 

Keeweenaw Co., Keeweenaw Peninsula, Michigan, United States

5.3x 3.0x 1.9 cm             

$1650

A superb crystallized silver from Michigan, and one of the nicest miniatures I have seen from the location.  It is not the largest piece, but at over 5 cm it is still quite substantial.

This specimen has numerous, fairly sharp and chunky crystals branching out from a single stem of silver, with some calcite at the base.  Wire silvers and thinner herring bone specimens are known from many localities, but these heftier crystals really only came in any appreciable quantity from Norway or Michigan.

This is obviously an old piece, most silvers from this part of the USA came out in the 1800’s, and it would be safe to assume that this piece comes from that time period.