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LOT 2546
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
1 5/8 - 3 in. (631 grams total, 43-75 mm).
Comprising: quartz cluster, collection number 309; baryte from Mexico, collection number 66; smithsonite from Ireland, collection number 287; cluster of gypsum blades from Mexico, collection number 31; calcite, collection number 592; cockscomb baryte with galena from Castleton, Cumbria, England, collection number 302; quartz from Lake District, England, collection number 538; siltstone from Table Top Mountain, South Africa; acicular aragonite cluster. [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.
Seven specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.
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Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising: arsenopyrite, collection number 471; fluorite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 196; a cut and polished agate geode slice in enhanced blue colour; serpentine from Cornwall, England, collection number 469; spodumene from Scotland, collection number 158; chalcocite from Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall, England, collection number 561; actinolite, collection number 463; lazulite with siderite from Crosscut, Yukon, Canada, collection number 548; orange calcite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 314. 149 grams total, 17-91 mm
Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Seven specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
Natural History - Mixed Fossil and Mineral Collection
Mainly Devonian-Cretaceous Period, 395-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising: a polished Goniatite sp. specimens; a polished Orthoceras sp.; a trilobite; a cut half geode specimen; a polished coral head; a rostral spine; a shark vertebra; two cut ammonites; a matrix with fossilised leaf remains; and other specimens. 1.9 kg total, 2.6-15.7 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Angrite NWA 2999 Meteorite Slice
Found 2004 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
An irregular section of angrite meteorite recorded as: Northwest Africa 2999; displayed in a Swiss membrane box and with an inked 'NWA 2999' to one side. 1.73 grams, 20 mm (28.4 grams total, 84 x 59 mm including case)
From the Sahara Desert, North West Africa. Ex Hupé collection, U.S.A. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
This specimen fragment formed part of a group of twelve individual dark brown stones totalling 392 grams, each with a thin fusion crust, that were acquired by G. Hupé in August 2004 in Tagounite.
