Meteoritic Tektite Specimen

1 3/4 in. (8.44 grams, 44 mm).

A tongue-shaped specimen with dimpled surface. [No Reserve]

Provenance

From Indo-China.
Acquired from Friars Square market, Aylesbury, UK, October 2012.
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.

Footnotes

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.

CONDITION

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