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LOT 2572
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
5/8 - 2 3/4 in. (111 grams total, 16-70 mm).
Comprising: rhodochrosite from Argentina, collection number 11; an attractive quartz rosette, collection number 282; a cut and polished agate slice from Brazil, collection number 350; vanadinite on calcite, collection number 146; lepidolite from Brazil, collection number 268; spodumene from Nuristan, collection number 630; sand crystals from Canterbury Sand Pit, Canterbury, England, collection number 173; pyrite from England, collection number 82. [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.
Each specimen accompanied by an original historic index file card.
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