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LOT 2466
Natural History - Quartz Crystal Nodule
2 1/2 in. (138 grams, 65 mm).
Split to reveal the internal enhanced purple crystal cavity. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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Natural History - Historic Fossil Collection
Devonian-Eocene Period, circa 419-33 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Comprising: two echinoidea, matrix with crinoids, a petrified whale bone, ammonite, a large ammonite fragment, two brachiopods, five ammonite fragments, and a seashell; most with old handwritten labels. 632 grams total, 10-65 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. -
Natural History - Historic 'Deccan, India' Stilbite on Heulandite Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising pink heulendite crystals with a flower-shaped formation of white stilbite crystals, collection number 369, with an old Leolites India letter. 264 grams, 80 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. Accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
Natural History - Nuevo Mercurio Fall Meteorite
Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
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.
