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LOT 2667

Sold for (Inc. bp): £26

NATURAL HISTORY - HISTORIC MINERAL SPECIMEN COLLECTION
3/4 - 2 5/8 in. (142 grams total, 18-66 mm).

Comprising: enargite with quartz from Montana, USA, collection number 528; green fluorite from Cumbria, England, collection number 435; kunzite from Minas Gerais, Brazil, collection number 476; aragonite, collection number 140; arsenopyrite from England, collection number 47; colourless calcite, collection number 410; pyrite and chlorite in matrix slate from Devonshire, England, collection number 46; selenite from Sahara Desert, Libya, collection number 349; cuboid limonite from USA, collection number 498, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label. [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.

CONDITION
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