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LOT 2655
Natural History - Mixed Mineral Specimen Group
3/8 - 6 1/4 in. (677 grams total, 0.9-15.7 cm).
Comprising: septarian nodule fragment from Horsenden Hill, Ealing, Middlesex, England, collection number 216; amethyst from Brazil, collection number 360; agate slice from Brazil, collection number 364; pyrite and chlorite in matrix slate, collection number 46; calcite, collection number 366; arogonite from Somerset, England, collection number 166; gabbro from Visingso Lake, Sweden, collection number 255; a cut and polished agate geode half, collection number 419; two sand crystals from Canterbury Sand Pit, Kent, England, collection number 173; arsenopyrite, collection number 471; chalcopyrite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 193; aragonite from Spain, collection number 156; and a number of other mineral specimens 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.
Two lots accompanied by an historic index card.
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Natural History - Polished Fossil Orthoceras Cluster Display
Devonian Period, 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
With bullet-shaped Orthoceras specimens on a textured background. 1.25 kg, 22.5 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Large Fossil Crinoid Plate
Silurian Period, circa 443-416 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £293
Presenting a Scyphocrinus elegans specimen with good details on a tongue-shaped matrix. 4.3 kg, 41 cm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising: granite from A40 construction works in Middlesex, collection number 505; wood opal, collection number 243; citrine from Brazil, collection number 105; goethite in quartz from England, collection number 143; a cut amethyst agate geode from Chihuahua, Mexico, collection number 545; realgar from Hungary, collection number 519 with old Gregory, Bottley and Lloyd label; granite from adjacent to Ruislip Road, Greenford, Middlesex, collection number 457; dioptase, collection number 391; pyrite from Mexico, collection number 42. 720 grams total, 29-78 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. Each specimen accompanied by an original historic index file card.
