Natural History - Polished Amethyst Crystal Pebble Group [100]

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. 677 grams total, 0.9-15.7 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. Two lots accompanied by an historic index card.

Featuring quartz or agate beads, biconical glass beads and oval tiger's eye beads, with a facetted tear-shaped tiger's eye pendant bead. 36 grams total, 42 cm long



UK gallery, early 2000s.

A H5 chondrite showing some regmaglypts and primary fusion crust. 102 grams, 52 mm



Found near Nuevo Mercurio, Mexico, 1978.

The fall was strewn across an area about 10 km north of the village of Nuevo Mercurio, Zacatecas, Mexico, 250 km South West of Monterrey. A bright fireball, travelling North East to South West and visible over a radius of at least 200 km, exploded over north-central Mexico and scattered meteorites over an elliptical area more than 10 km in length. Only 5 kg of material has been found to date.