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LOT 2565
Coloured Quartz Crystal Nodule
2 - 2 1/8 in. (94 grams total, 51-54 mm).
An opened nodule lined with dyed blue quartz crystals. [2, No Reserve]
Provenance
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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