Natural History - Historic Opal Mineral Specimen

Comprising: branching calcite from Brazil, collection number 77; agate from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 198; wavellite from Magnet Cove, Arkansas, USA, collection number 244; opaque topaz pebble from Madagascar, collection number 294; granite from near Harare, Zimbabwe, collection number 586; quartz, collection number 315; cerussite on heulandite from Ireland, collection number 499, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label; mica, collection number 366; biotite with no collection number. 467 grams total, 37-73 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.

Comprising: a cut and polished agate geode section, collection number 335; a large section of ignimbrite, collection number 87; quartz from Rhandir-Mwyn, near Llandovery, Dyfed, Wales, collection number 331; white quartz, collection number 403; schist from Skiathos Island, Greece, collection number 513; quartzite, collection number 86; siderite in chlorite from Devon, England, collection number 281; boulangerite from Noche Bvena, Zacatecas, Mexico, collection number 619, with an old Richard Tayler Minerals label; granite from the A40 construction works, Middlesex, England, collection number 503. 11 kg total, 7-19 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. Eight specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.

Restrung using polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 196 grams, 64 cm long



Private UK collection formed in the 1980s. Property of an East Sussex, UK, teacher.