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LOT 2636
Crystal and Mineral Display Specimen Collection
1/4 - 3 7/8 in. (774 grams total, 5-98 mm).
Comprising banded agate, optical calcite, smoky quartz, polished dish of ruby in zoisite, quartz, tourmaline, prehnite, polished tiger's eye pebbles, and others. [36, No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a North West London, UK, lady.
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Rutilated Quartz Crystal Sphere Mineral Display Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Clear quartz sphere with fine rutile needles, pyrite inclusions, and hematite(?) platelets. 74 grams, 37 mm
Property of a North West London, UK, lady. -
Meteorite Crater Tektite Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Pebble-like black specimens of meteoric glass of mainly oval shape. 113 grams total, 32-55 mm
From the collection of G.M.R.H., London, UK.
Tektites are lumps of black or dark grey natural glass produced from melted crustal rocks that are caused by large hypervelocity meteorite impacts on sediments. -
Polished Fossil Brachiopod
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
A large specimen of possibly Brachiopoda articulata. 653 grams, 86 mm
From Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa. Acquire Sheringham, UK, in 1999. 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.
