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LOT 2773
Natural History - Mineral Specimen Collection
1/4 - 2 1/4 in. (318 grams total, 9-57 mm).
Comprising: a dolomite and quartz specimen from Nentsbury Mine, Northumbria, UK, supplied with an old M.G. Weller collection label; a cassiterite specimen from Old Beam Mine, Bugle, Cornwall, UK, supplied with an old M.G. Weller collection label; a geode section with a cluster of amethyst crystals, from Brazil; both halves of a quartz geode from Morocco; a group of thirty-five pyrite crystal nuggets of various sizes. [40, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom an old Oxfordshire, UK, fossil and mineral collection.
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LOT 2773
Natural History - Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
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Natural History - Historic Micaceous Haematite Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
The large nugget with metallic lustre; supplied in a display box. 235 grams total, 58 mm
From Great Rock mine, Devon, UK. Collected in person in 1964. From the private mineral collection of Stephen Atkinson, Harpenden, UK. Accompanied by a copy of a letter from the vendor giving details of him collecting these minerals throughout his life.
The mineral was an important ingredient in the rust-resistant paint used on Royal Navy ships and bridges. Shiny ore has also been used in glaze for pottery, decorative bricks and tiles giving it a sparkly finish. -
Natural History - Medium Amethyst Crystal Geode Section Group [11]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Each cut section with clusters of purple to lavender coloured crystals. 1.25 kg total, 32-94 mm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's). -
Natural History - Polished Fossil Orthoceras Bookends
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
A pair of bookends formed from fossiliferous stone showing multiple goniatite and orthoceras fossils, two large Orthoceras sp. fossils set to the frontal face. 3.46 kg total, 16 cm each
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.