“Gail & Jim Spann collection; Ex John Barlow (twice), Ex Wally Mann. Red beryl, purchased from Arkenstone, now in our collection. A lustrous transparent to translucent deep red doubly terminated perfectly hexagonal prismatic red beryl xl (26x9x9mm) with a rehealed fractured waist sits on rhyolite matrix; a couple of other hexagonal red beryl xls up to 4mm compliment the large xl. When Barlow sold his collection, he kept this specimen as part of a "carve-out". Featured on Poster and T-shirt for 2009 East Coast Gem & Mineral Show, as painted by Fred Wilda. ”

“A lustrous transparent to translucent deep red doubly terminated perfectly hexagonal prismatic red beryl xl (26x9x9mm) with a rehealed fractured waist sits on rhyolite matrix; a couple of other hexagonal red beryl xls up to 4mm compliment the large xl. In the collection of Gail and Jim Spann. This was the East Coast Gem and Mineral Show poster and tee shirt theme, 2009. ”

“This same photo is also MinID 1Q3-RTT, with comments by Jeff Scovil, photographer”