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LOT 2675
Coloured Quartz Crystal Nodule
2 in. (93 grams total, 49 mm each).
An opened nodule lined with dyed pink quartz crystals. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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