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LOT 2772

Sold for (Inc. bp): £7

BLADED BARYTES CARBONIFEROUS LIMESTONE SPECIMEN
3 3/4 in. (991 grams, 94 mm).

An intergrown mass of pink blade-like crystals, collection number '15' to one edge. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
From Taffs Well, South Wales, UK.
Acquired from Milton Keynes Geological Society 16 January 1994.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.

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