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LOT 2620
Staurolite Mineral Specimen
3 1/8 in. (147 grams, 80 mm).
Comprising lustrous brown twinned crystals on sparkly muscovite schist. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From Keyvy, Murmansk, Russia.
Acquired from Don Edwards, Derbyshire, UK.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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