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LOT 2601
Natural History - Historic 'Laurium, Greece' Rosasite with Azurite and Smithsonite Mineral Specimen
4 in. (193 grams, 99 mm).
A complex specimen displaying botryoidal smithsonite coated with mamillary rosasite with a sprinkling of azurite crystals, collection number 494; with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970.
From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent.
Accompanied by an original historic index file card.
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LOT 2601
Natural History - Historic 'Laurium, Greece' Rosasite with Azurite and Smithsonite Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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Natural History - Mixed Polished Mineral Specimen Pebble Group [100]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising: haematite, quartz, amethyst, aventurine, dalmatian jasper and others. 722 grams total, 15-33 mm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's). -
Natural History - Fossil Reedops Trilobite
Upper Devonian Period, circa 385-359 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
A Reedops sp. trilobite on matrix, clearly showing the external structures. 230 grams, 88 mm
From the Hamar Laghdad Formation, Atlas Mountains, Pragian, (Alnif), Morocco, North Africa. From an old Oxfordshire fossil and mineral collection. -
Natural History - Polished Fossil Goniatite and Orthoceras Stand
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Set on a textured freestanding matrix and polished to reveal the internal gas chambers. 710 grams, 15.5 cm
From the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, North Africa. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.