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LOT 2528

Sold for (Inc. bp): £13

NATURAL HISTORY - HISTORIC MINERAL SPECIMEN COLLECTION
1 3/8 - 2 7/8 in. (467 grams total, 37-73 mm).

Comprising: branching calcite from Brazil, collection number 77; agate from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 198; wavellite from Magnet Cove, Arkansas, USA, collection number 244; opaque topaz pebble from Madagascar, collection number 294; granite from near Harare, Zimbabwe, collection number 586; quartz, collection number 315; cerussite on heulandite from Ireland, collection number 499, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label; mica, collection number 366; biotite with no collection number. [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.

Seven specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.

CONDITION
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