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[marco campos-venuti]

Some scepters seems to start with a secondary grow preferential on the rhombohedrum faces. The cap-scepter quartz crystals on hematite from Jinlong hill, China have similar grow pattern that the tourmaline crystal from Barra do Salina with a secondary grow on the termination with different color. If the cap continues growing we will have a scepter.
But reverse scepters or crazy crystals as those from Goboboseb or Liliana Mine, I think they can have a different origin. And it doesn't look to have any relation with dissolution

[Travis Hetsler]

Quartz scepter var smokey amethyst with phantoms.

[Reef]

Quartz scepter with rhombohedra {012} or {102}

[marco campos-venuti]

Some more specimens.

[elbaite]

This is an old topic - but incomplete without a scepter from Hallelujah Junction. So here's one:
12.5cm - Royal Scepter Mine, Peterson Mountain, Nevada, USA.

[elbaite]

And another from Riemvasmaak, North Cape Province, South Africa - 4cm.

[bob kerr]

Clive Queit had a few flats of interesting Riemvasmaak scepters at the 2018 Tucson Show - new this year according to him. The red is probably due to hematite inclusions. These are the ones I bought from him.

bob

[zbhjzm]

Double terminated Quartz Scepter.

[Jordi Fabre]

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