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LOT 2791
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
1 3/4 - 3 3/4 in. (1.04 kg total, 47-95 mm).
Comprising: siltstone from Table Top Mountain, South Africa, collection number 405; jasper pebble from England, collection number 409; sphalerite from Baxter Springs, Kansas, USA, collection number 477, with an old Gregory, Bottley and Lloyd label; two vanadinite specimens from Mibladen, Morocco, collection number 603, with an old Gregory, Bottley and Lloyd label; mudstone from the English Channel Tunnel construction works, collection number 212; a cut agate geode half, collection number 265; carboniferous limestone, collection number 214; granite from A40 construction works, Middlesex, England, collection number 503; diopside from Scotland, collection number 480. [10, 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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