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LOT 2501
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
1 1/4 - 2 1/2 in. (433 grams total, 34-65 mm).
Comprising: pink calcite, collection number 40; conichalcite with chrysocolla from Ojvela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico, collection number 618 with old Richard Tayler Minerals label; quartz from Cumbria, collection number 19; cluster of colourless quartz crystals from Madagascar, collection number 67; calcite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 316; actinolite from Norway, collection number 328; campylite from Carrock Fell, Cumbria, England, collection number 279; galena from England, collection number 234; chalcotrichite from Pendarves Mine, level 6, Tryphena Lode, Cornwall, England, collection number 571 with old Gregory, Bottley and Lloyd label. [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.
Eight specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.
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