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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]
Provenance
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.
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