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LOT 2709
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
5/8 - 1 1/2 in. (123 grams total, 14-39 mm).
Comprising: cherry-red rhodonite on galena from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, collection number 559, with an old ISIS Minerals label; emerald-green dioptase from Harlequin Mine, Pinal County, Arizona, USA, collection number 152; apple-green pyromorphite from Ussel, Correze, France, collection number 552; orange stilbite, collection number 92; rubellite from USA , collection number 129; gypsum from Oxfordshire, England, collection number 15; sphalerite from Brazil, collection number 93; limonite from England, collection number 537; corundum from Madagascar, collection number 8. [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.
Each specimen accompanied by an original historic index file card.
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Natural History - Composite Fossil Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Jaw Pair
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Comprising a pair of Mosasaur prognathodon jaw section, each with three teeth. 1.16 kg, 19 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
The Mosasaur is an extinct, large marine reptile dinosaur with a snake-like body, long snout and paddle-like limbs. found worldwide, they competed with other well-known sea predators of the Late Cretaceous, such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, for food, existing primarily on a diet of ammonoids, cuttlefish and fish. -
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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. 111 grams total, 16-70 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. Each specimen accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
Natural History - Historic 'Boia Sprie, Romania' Stibnite Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
In the form of a cluster of prismatic radiating crystals, collection number 560, with an old ISIS Minerals label. 79 grams, 72 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. Accompanied by an original historic index file card.
