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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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Natural History - Whitby Dac Fossil Ammonite Pair
Jurassic Period, Toarcian Stage, circa 180 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Containing two Dactylioceras tenuicostatum sp. specimens. 947 grams, 13.9 cm
Found Whitby Dac, UK. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Historic 'Beckermet Mine, Cumbria' Spectacular Fluorite on Hematite Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Displaying perfect pale blue fluorite cubes on a hematite matrix with some quartz present, collection number 574; paid £60.00 from Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd, in the 1980s, with a label. 100 grams, 76 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. Accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
Natural History - Historic 'Quiruvilca Mine, Peru' Quartz on Sphalerite Crystal Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Two of the quartz crystals forming a cross, on a matrix of grey sphalerite with some pyrite present, collection number 628, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label. 129 grams, 63 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. Accompanied by an original historic index file card.
