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LOT 2634
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
1 3/4 - 7 7/8 in. (1.8 kg total, 4.6-20 cm).
Comprising: granite with high mica content from the A40 construction works, Middlesex, collection number 500; unakite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 229; quartz from Cornwall, England, collection number 295; pyrite, collection number 592; granite, collection number 540; gneiss veins in quartz with two cut and polished faces, collection number 404; granite from the A40 construction works, Middlesex, England, collection number 506; grit from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 224; mica, collection number 366. [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.
Five specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.
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Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising: a cut slice of amethyst on basalt from Brazil, collection number 95; gneiss from Scotland, collection number 81; a cut and polished slice of agate and quartz from Brazil, collection number 353; apple-green fuchsite from Brazil, collection number 58; calcite from England, collection number 102; a cut and polished slice of agate geode with quartz from Brazil, collection number 126; a cut and polished slice of stalactite, collection number 36; quartzo-feldspathic schist, collection number 169; quartz on sphalerite, collection number 180. 1.62 kg total, 4.2-10.8 cm
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. -
Natural History - Historic 'Manciano, Tuscany' Stibnite Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Displaying a spray of well-formed acicular crystals on a light grey matrix, the stilbite crystals with bluish iridescence, collection number 598; bought from Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd for £48.00 in the 1980s, with an old label. 481 grams, 12.5 cm
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. -
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Natural History - A Collection of Fossils
Devonian to Jurassic Period, circa 417-145 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Mixed group including Perisphinctids indogermanus ammonite, Goniatite and Orthoceras. 584 grams total, 7.4-15.5 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
