Natural History - Cut and Polished Mini Crystal Geode Group [100]

Comprising: granite from A40 construction works in Middlesex, collection number 505; wood opal, collection number 243; citrine from Brazil, collection number 105; goethite in quartz from England, collection number 143; a cut amethyst agate geode from Chihuahua, Mexico, collection number 545; realgar from Hungary, collection number 519 with old Gregory, Bottley and Lloyd label; granite from adjacent to Ruislip Road, Greenford, Middlesex, collection number 457; dioptase, collection number 391; pyrite from Mexico, collection number 42. 720 grams total, 29-78 mm



Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Each specimen accompanied by an original historic index file card.

Comprising: limonite from Spain, collection number 525, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label; a cut half agate geode from Mexico, collection number 51; turritella agate slice from Australia, collection number 257, with an old invoice from James Walker invoice dated 1977; quartz, collection number 137; bornite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 201; botryoidal hematite, collection number 263; chalcopyrite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 193; copper in quartz, collection number 378; quartz on hematite from England, collection number 60. 1.42 kg total, 4.6-12.5 cm



Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Each specimen accompanied by an original historic index file card.

A freestanding cut geode section with lilac-coloured amethyst crystals. 960 grams, 11.1 cm



From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.