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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 - Polished Green Tourmaline Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising a quantity of 500 carats of tumble-polished green tourmaline crystals. 100 grams total, 6-15 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s. -
Natural History - Amber with Insect Inclusions
Oligocene Period, circa 45 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
A specimen of polished amber with insect inclusion. 2.23 grams, 25 mm
Ex private UK collection formed in the 1980s. Property of an East Sussex, UK, teacher. -
Natural History - Polished Copal with Insects
Over 3 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Containing several insects and other inclusions. 61 grams, 10 cm
From Madagascar. Acquired 1950s-1960s. From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection.