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LOT 2729
Natural History - Mixed Mineral Specimen Group
1/2 - 2 1/2 in. (761 grams total, 14-66 mm).
Comprising: granite, collection number 536; two tiger's eye pebbles from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 203; selenite from Sahara Desert, Libya, collection number 349; amethyst from Brazil, collection number 360; arsenopyrite, collection number 471; stained calcite from Ghajn Tuffer, Malta, collection number 41; hematite, collection number 154; chryspoprase from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 195; sand crystals from Canterbury Sand Pit, Kent, collection number 173; pyrite from, collection number 343; topaz from Madagascar, collection number 294; and a large number of other mineral samples without collection numbers. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970.
From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent.
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Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising: a cut sample of chrysoprase from Australia, collection number 383; bornite from North Transvaal, North Africa, collection number 215; yellow calcite from Libya, collection number 361; a cut geode half from Brazil, collection number 112; a cut calcite slice from Malta, collection number 80; green actinolite from near St Moritz, Switzerland, collection number 359; a large rose quartz specimen from Brazil, collection number 64; agate geode section, collection number 385; actinolite from near St Moritz, Switzerland, collection number 359. 2.8 kg total, 5.1-13 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. Five specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
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Natural History - Polished Orthoceras Fossil Display
Upper Devonian Period, 370 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £14
Comprising a cluster of vertical Orthoceras sp. specimens. 1.54 kg, 20.5 cm high
Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Comprising: ferruginous quartz from Cornwall, England, collection number 438, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label; a cut and polished agate geode slice from Brazil, collection number 351; apophyllite from Poona, Bombay, India, collection number 176; brochantite on quartz from Bingham, New Mexico, USA, collection number 614, with an old Simon Harrison Minerals label; kyanite from Graves Mountain, Georgia, USA, collection number 616; wulfenite with mimetite from San Francisco Mine, Sonora, Mexico, collection number 488; a cut and polished agate slice from Brazil, collection number 364; a cut section of agate geode, collection number 32; eight specimens of brown crystal. 358 grams total, 24-74 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.
