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LOT 2812

Sold for (Inc. bp): £13

NATURAL HISTORY - HISTORIC MINERAL SPECIMEN COLLECTION
3/4 - 1 3/8 in. (117 grams total, 19-35 mm).

Comprising: fluorite from Hilton Mine, Scardale, Cumbria, England, collection number 582; vanadinite from USA, collection number 21; rosasite from Mexico, collection number 254; graphite from Sri Lanka, collection number 1; grossular from Mexico, collection number 119; adamite from Mexico, collection number 449; millerite from Bedwellty Pit, Tredegar, Monmouthshire, collection number 520; chalcedony from Whitstable Bay, Kent, England, collection number 177; lodestone, collection number 151. [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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