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LOT 2658
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
3 - 9 1/2 in. (3.46 kg total, 7.8-24 cm).
Comprising: iron on matrix slate from England, collection number 89; quartz from a ploughed field, Speen, near High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, England, collection number 54; quartz from Cornwall, England, collection number 295; septarian nodule from Horsenden Hill, Ealing, Middlesex, England, collection number 216; pseudomalachite with chrysocolla, collection number 394; cut slice of crazy laced agate, collection number 248; volcanic rock, collection number 531; a cut and polished slice of agate geode from Brazil, collection number 126; citrine from Brazil, collection number 379, with an old James Walker label and invoice dated 1979. [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.
Six specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.
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