Natural History - Polished Stone Ball

Comprising: pink calcite, collection number 40; conichalcite with chrysocolla from Ojvela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico, collection number 618 with old Richard Tayler Minerals label; quartz from Cumbria, collection number 19; cluster of colourless quartz crystals from Madagascar, collection number 67; calcite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 316; actinolite from Norway, collection number 328; campylite from Carrock Fell, Cumbria, England, collection number 279; galena from England, collection number 234; chalcotrichite from Pendarves Mine, level 6, Tryphena Lode, Cornwall, England, collection number 571 with old Gregory, Bottley and Lloyd label. 433 grams total, 34-65 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. Eight specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.

Comprising brown and white scalenohedral calcite crystals on small pyrite crystals with acicular and druzy haematite; supplied in a labelled cardboard tray. 262 grams, 80 mm



From Huanuco, Peru. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).

Comprising: gypsum, no collection number; garnet schist, collection number 191; red granite, collection number 399; Blue John from Derbyshire, England, collection number 484, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label; a cut and polished slice of septarian nodule from USA, collection number 117; limestone from Skiathos Island, Greece, collection number 510; kermesite with stibnite from Pezinok, Czechoslovakia, collection number 601; mica, collection number 366; pyrite and chlorite in matrix slate from Devon, England, collection number 46. 1.28 kg total, 5.1-12.1 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.