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LOT 2911
Collection of Twenty [20] Assorted Mineral Specimens
1/2 - 5 3/4 in. (2.06 kg total including box, 1.4-14.4 cm).
A boxed collection comprising: a very dark and large smoky quartz specimen; three dark green tourmaline specimens, one bicoloured tourmaline specimen; a grossular garnet from Chihuahua, Mexico; dog tooth calcite; red jasper, banded fluorite, agate; carnelian, light grey smoky quartz, and others. [20, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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LOT 2911
Collection of Twenty [20] Assorted Mineral Specimens
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
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Quartz Gem Tree on Amethyst Crystal Geode Section
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Irregular geode matrix with light purple amethyst crystals; the metal branches tipped with polished quartz pebbles. 520 grams, 19.5 cm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Collection of Twenty [20] Mixed Crystal Mineral Specimens
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Boxed group of specimens including a hexagonal ruby crystal, pyrite, fluorite, smoky quartz, rock crystal, calcite with sphalerite from Tri-State in USA, amethyst from Uruguay, phantom quartz from Minas Gerais in Brazil, and others. 1.8 kg total, 1.5-13 mm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Fossil Dicranurus Monstrosus Trilobite on Matrix
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Showing the pair of horn-like spines behind the glabellum, specific for Dicranurus monstrosus odontopleurid trilobites; restored. 437 grams, 14 cm
From Morocco, North Africa. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.