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LOT 2628
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
1 - 1 7/8 in. (104 grams total, 25-47 mm).
Comprising: blue sapphire from Antar Village, Jamaa, Kaduna State, Nigeria, collection number 563; a fine aquamarine-blue tourmaline crystal with pale rose-pink colour towards the top of the main crystal, collection number 460, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label; cinnabar from Humboldt County, California, USA, collection number 260; talc from Norway, collection number 18; copper from USA, collection number 91; baryte from Frizington, Cumbria, England, collection number 421; moss agatev311; lapis lazuli from USSR, collection number 135; mica schist from Skiathos Island, Greece, collection number 511. [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 - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising: brown chalcedony, collection number 131; calcite from Mexico, collection number 38; siderite from Cornwall, collection number 447, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label; brown calcite in hematite from England, collection number 98; pyrite nodule, collection number 624; flint concretion from Greenford, Middlesex, collection number 211; mica(?), collection number 366; agate with quartz from Brazil, collection number 353; agate geode half from Mexico, collection number 28. 841 grams total, 47-93 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. -
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Natural History - Fossil Sinosura Starfish Group
Jurassic Period, circa 199-145 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising three possibly Sinosura kelheimense specimens, a pair on one matrix and the other with one specimen. 146 grams total, 63-70 mm
From Stonhoffen, Germany. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Mixed Fossil Collection
Devonian-Late Pleistocene Period, 395 million-125,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
A group of fossils comprising: four polished Orthoceras sp. specimens; two polished Goniatite sp. specimens; a Dactylioceras commune trilobite; a Hildoceras bifrons ammonite; two Littorina littorea gastropods; and other fossils. 1.3 kg total, 2.5-12.6 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
