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LOT 2549
Coloured Quartz Crystal Nodule
2 1/8 in. (104 grams total, 55-56 mm).
An opened nodule lined with dyed purple quartz crystals. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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Opening Bid: £3
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Tschermigite Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
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Acquired from the Bakewell Show, UK, 7 October 2000. 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.