A great gift for both ladies and gentlemen:
The bottle stopper is topped by a large Tumbled Stone made of Labradorite.
Size of the Tumbled Stone about 4cm, total length of the wine stopper about 10cm.
The dark labradorite belongs to the Feldspar group.
In the 18th century the first Labradorites came to Europe, after they were found on the Canadian peninsula Labrador in 1770. The Czech missionary Father Adolf found the first pieces there when the Herrnhuter founded numerous settlements on the forest-covered peninsula in the Atlantic Ocean. The mineral was given its name "Labradorite" in 1832 by the French mineralogist and professor François Bedaunt (1787 - 1850) because of its location on the Labrador Peninsula. Occasionally encountered spellings such as labardorite, labradoride, labradoriet, labradorite, labratorite or lapradorite are therefore incorrect.