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LOT 2772
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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