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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]

Provenance

From 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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