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LOT 2848
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
5/8 - 3 1/2 in. (149 grams total, 17-91 mm).
Comprising: arsenopyrite, collection number 471; fluorite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 196; a cut and polished agate geode slice in enhanced blue colour; serpentine from Cornwall, England, collection number 469; spodumene from Scotland, collection number 158; chalcocite from Levant Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall, England, collection number 561; actinolite, collection number 463; lazulite with siderite from Crosscut, Yukon, Canada, collection number 548; orange calcite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 314. [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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Natural History - Fossil Phacops Tribobite
Devonian Period, 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
On a matrix, showing good detail to the body. 142 grams, 65 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Comprising: a cut and polished agate slice from Brazil, collection number 35; brown calcite from Brazil, collection number 109; septarian nodule section from Horsenden Hill, Ealing, Middlesex, England, collection number 216; aurichalcite, collection number 365; lepidolite, collection number 544; phantom calcite from Mexico, collection number 209; calcite from Riesengebirge, collection number 481; rutilated quartz from South Africa, collection number 291; baryte from Winster, Derbyshire, England, collection number 174. 989 grams total, 56-78 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 - Cut and Polished Fossil Ammonite
Middle Cretaceous Period, 150 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Revealing the distinctive structure of the Cleoniceras sp. chambers, some iridescence to outer surfaces. 245 grams total, 10.2 cm each
Collected 1930-1960. From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.
