Agate / Crystal Geode

Golden rinds hug a lilac ring and a small beaded white core.

This is an agate and crystal geode. Quartz crystals commonly grow inward from the wall of a geode toward its center, so the points of the crystals face the open space. Paired round cut faces with thin, honey-yellow outer edges. Fine radiating fibers in mauve and white surround a center of tiny rounded bumps in one half and a bright white star in the other. It is 3.5 inches wide, 3.25 deep and 4 high.

Neat as a pair of buttons and twice as shiny.