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LOT 2549
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
1 1/4 - 2 1/2 in. (444 grams total, 32-63 mm).
Comprising: amorphous silica from Italy, collection number 483; malachite on chrysocolla from 79 Mine, Gila County, Arizona, USA, collection number 590; cut agate geode half from Mexico, collection number 49; quartz geode from Mexico, collection number 308; cassiterite from Viloco Mine, Bolivia, collection number 602; colourless quartz point from Arkansas, USA, collection number 34; limonite from A40 construction works, Middlesex, England, collection number 508; fluorite with galena from England, collection number 139; chrysocolla from Mexico, collection number 357. [9, 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.
Each specimen accompanied by an original historic index file card.
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Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising: tuff from Chineham District Centre, Chineham, Basingstoke, England, collection number 532; pale apple-green gypsum from Rudna Copper Mine, Lubin, Poland, collection number 576; lepidolite from Brazil, collection number 268; granite from the A40 construction works, Middlesex, England, collection number 501; a cut and polished agate geode half from Brazil, collection number 68; asrophyllite from Khibiny Massif, Kola Peninsula, USSR, collection number 556; breccia, collection number 188; quartz from Cornwall, England, collection number 295; boleite, collection number 553. 1.46 kg total, 3.5-11.5 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. Six specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
Natural History - 'El Chayal, Guatemala' Obsidian Block
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Irregular block with label to one face 'Obsidian / El Chaya / Guatemala' and old information card. 220 grams, 68 mm
From El Chayal, Guatemala. Ex UK collection. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection. Accompanied by a location information card. -
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising: pyrolusite from Cornwall, England, collection number 362; hematite on a granite base from Cumbria, England; septarian nodule fragment from Horsenden Hill, Ealing, Middlesex, England, collection number 216; granite from Sandwich Bay, Kent, England, collection number 184; pyrolusite from Solenhofen, Bavaria, collection number 256, with an old James Walker label; granite from Scotland(?), collection number 466; granite from adjacent to Ruislip Road, Greenford, Middlesex, England, collection number 454; granite from A40 construction works, Middlesex, England, collection number 507; halite from Brazil, collection number 220. 1.37 kg total, 3.8-14.6 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. Six specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.
