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LOT 2693
Mineral and Fossil Impression Group
13/4 - 2 1/2 in. (248 grams total, 44-63 mm).
Comprising amethyst, a negative impression of an ammonite, and a quartz specimen with an accessory mineral. [3, No Reserve]
Provenance
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey, one of the global authorities on the confederate army in the US civil war; thence by descent to his grandson.
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