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LOT 2808
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
5/8 - 3 in. (104 grams total, 16-76 mm).
Comprising: calcite from Picher, Oklahoma, USA, collection number 30; sulphur from Australia, collection number 24; lepidolite from Brazil, collection number 268; optical calcite from Mexico, collection number 142; pyrrhotine from Mexico, collection number 144; rhodonite from England, collection number 48; corundum, collection number 134; mica schist from Skiathos Island, Greece, collection number 512; a mineral specimen in a glass bottle. [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.
Seven specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.
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Very Large Matrix with Fossil Otodus Shark Teeth
Eocene Period, circa 56-33 million years BPSold for (Inc. bp): £572
A huge montage of over fifty large fossil Otodus obliquus shark teeth, set recently in a matrix. 35.1 kg, 52 cm
From a Cambridgeshire collection; from Morocco. From the Horton collection, UK. -
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising: siltstone from Table Top Mountain, South Africa, collection number 405; jasper pebble from England, collection number 409; sphalerite from Baxter Springs, Kansas, USA, collection number 477, with an old Gregory, Bottley and Lloyd label; two vanadinite specimens from Mibladen, Morocco, collection number 603, with an old Gregory, Bottley and Lloyd label; mudstone from the English Channel Tunnel construction works, collection number 212; a cut agate geode half, collection number 265; carboniferous limestone, collection number 214; granite from A40 construction works, Middlesex, England, collection number 503; diopside from Scotland, collection number 480. 1.04 kg total, 47-95 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. -
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Natural History - Fossil Ginko Leaf
Carboniferous Period, 359-299 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
On an irregular matrix. 102 grams, 75 mm
From the Sentinel Butte Formation, Morton County, North Dakota, USA. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
