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| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| The Contents of the Showrooms of the Mineralogists and Geologists Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd | |||
| Auctioneer: | Canterbury Auction Rooms | Location: | Canterbury |
| Contact: | Tel: 01227 763337 Fax: 01227 456770 | ||
| Date: | 12th June 2014 | Time: | 10:00AM |
| Details: | Viewing: Saturday 7th June 10.00 am to 4.00 pm Sunday 8th June 12.00 pm to 4.00 pm Monday 9th June 10.00 am to 7.00 pm Tuesday 10th June 10.00 am to 5.00 pm Wednesday 11th June 10.00 am to 5.00 pm Thursday 12th June 8.30 am to 10.00 am |
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| Auction Lots - Page 8 | |||
| 351 | |||
| Tsumeb - four larger specimens from the Tsumeb Mines, Namibia, two smithsonite, calcite and dioptase (one carton) £200-300 |
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| 352 | |||
| Peru - a group of fifteen minerals from Peru including two rhodocrosite, green fluorite, pyrite, quartz etc. (one carton) £60-80 |
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| 353 | |||
| India - thirteen minerals from India including cavansite, scolecite, apophyllite and a polished mocha stone (one carton) £150-200 |
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| 354 | |||
| Romania - four blue barites and three stibnites, all from Baia Sprie, Romania (one carton) £100-200 |
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| 355 | |||
| USA - nine specimens - golden barite on matrix from Elk Creek, Dakota; sphalerite from Silverton, Colorado; three calcites from Joplin, Missouri (one on matrix); galena on matrix from Joplin; sphalerite on matrix from Joplin; a blue beryl from New Hampshire; and native copper from Michigan (one carton) £150-200 |
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| 356 | |||
| Mexico - fourteen minerals - three selenite from Naica; pink grossular garnet from Lake Jaco; danburite from Charcas; pyrargyrite from Fresnillo; adamite from Mapimi; two pink octahedral fluorite from Durango; blue celestite from San Luis Potosi; calcite from Chihuahua; dark pink grossular garnet from Coahuilo; wulfenite from the San Francisco Mine; and danburite from Charcas (one carton) £120-160 |
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| 357 | |||
| Two cased Letcher's elementary students blow pipe analysis sets, each contained in a pine box with label to interior; an incomplete mahogany cased Letcher's blowpipe analysis set; and a Gregory Bottley and Co. blowpipe set in galvanised case £100-150 |
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| 358 | |||
| A Statham's pocket blow pipe analysis set, contained in japanned metal case; a mahogany cased blow pipe analysis set (incomplete); a cased set of Royal Worcester laboratory porcelain; a set of gold scales with glass pans (in oak case); and a cased set of geological microscope slides £70-100 |
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| 359 | |||
| A collection of fifty Victorian blue and clear glass cylindrical chemist jars, each containing a different powdered mineral prepared by J.R. Gregory and issued for examination by blowpipe analysis, with typed list of the contents, each 8ins high £200-300 |
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| 360 | |||
| Crystal models - various wooden and other crystal models, plaster casts of gemstones etc, and a quantity of nineteenth century wooden templates for cutting crystal models (two cartons) £80-120 |
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| 361 | |||
| A Herbert Smith refractometer in japanned metal case stamped J H Steward No. 207, together with the instruction manual published by J.H. Steward, 406 Strand and dated 1907, 3.5ins overall £100-150 |
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| 362 | |||
| A collection of eight 19th century small glass phials of volcanic dust collected by Edward Whymper, from the Great Andes of the Equator, prepared by James R Gregory of 88 Charlotte Street, Fitzroy Square, London, with descriptive leaflet, in card box £100-200 |
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| 363 | |||
| A late Victorian reference collection of approximately 80 minerals and rocks prepared by James Gregory and assembled for use on Her Majesty's surveying vessels, contained in stained pine box with two lift out trays, 19ins x 13ins x 5ins high (identification label to interior of chest, and with James Gregory catalogue) £300-400 |
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| 364 | |||
| A late Victorian reference collection of 40 fossil and mineral specimens prepared by James R Gregory and Co, contained in stained pine box, 14ins x 9.5ins x 5ins high £200-300 |
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| 365 | |||
| A late 19th/early 20th century small rock specimen set retailed by F.H. Butler, Brompton Road, London, in leather covered case; a Mohs scale of hardness set prepared by F.H. Butler, in stained wood case; a collection of twenty four small polished mineral specimens retailed by Ronziere, Cannes; a small hardness set in glass top box; and various minerals in glass top box £100-200 |
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| 366 | |||
| Two fossil and mineral sets each containing twenty specimens, contained in pine cases with hinged lids £60-80 |
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| 367 | |||
| Minerals - twenty-five crystallised specimens including epidote, tourmaline, topaz, sapphire, gold and atacamite (one carton) £200-300 |
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| 368 | |||
| Minerals - fourteen specimens - various gold and silver minerals from Romania, Colorado etc.; silvers from Kongsberg, Canada and Mexico; nagyagite from Romania; specular hematite from Cumbria; columbite from Colorado; ferrocolumbite from Bolivia; tantalite from Australia and brookite from Pakistan (one carton) £150-250 |
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| 369 | |||
| Minerals - fourteen specimens - two dolomites from Eugui, Spain; skeletal quartz from Poretta, Italy; silver in matrix from Kongsberg; anatase crystals on quartz from Tysse, Noway; demantoid garnet from Val Malenco, Italy; a clear smoky quartz crystal from Switzerland; a zircon crystal in matrix from Alta, Norway; pyromorphite on barite from Puy de Dome, France; gold telluride on matrix from Nagyag, Romania; aragonite from Agrigento, Sicily; actinolite on talc from Austria; and green apatite from Panasqueira, Portugal (one carton) £300-600 |
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| 370 | |||
| Minerals - cinnabar from China; schorl on albite from Pakistan; azurite from Morocco; stibnite from Romania; cuprian adamite from Mexico; siderite from Bolivia; axinite from Switzerland; azurite with malachite from Arizona; pyrhottite from Mexico and calcite from Mexico (one carton) £150-200 |
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| 371 | |||
| Minerals - fifteen specimens - three malachite from Zaire; two atacamite from Chile; sphalerite with chalcopyrite from Peru; adamite from Mexico; galena from Bulgaria; hemimorphite from Mexico; vanadinite from Morocco; selenite from Mexico; wulfenite from Mexico; celestite from Madagascar; dravite from Australia; and axinite on quartz from Pakistan (one carton) £80-120 |
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| 372 | |||
| Minerals - seven specimens - galena with calcite and sphalerite from the Trepca mines; vanadinite from Morocco; cinnabar from China; galena from Bulgaria and Peru etc. (one carton) £80-120 |
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| 373 | |||
| Minerals - eight specimens - rutilated quartz from Minas Gerais, Brazil; aquamarine on matrix from Pakistan; polished botryoidal malachite from Zaire; rubellite on albite from Afghanistan; opal on matrix from Queensland, Australia; a lapis lazuli crystal on limestone from Afghanistan; garnet on albite from Gilgit, Pakistan; and topaz crystals on rhyolite from USA (one carton) £500-800 |
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| 374 | |||
| Minerals - a group of fifteen minerals including atacamite, apatite on mica, galena, cinnabar and sphene (one carton) £60-80 |
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| 375 | |||
| Minerals - Fourteen specimens - rhodonite in galena from Broken Hill, Australia; lapis lazuli crystals on matrix from Afghanistan; scheelite crystals from Korea; pink smithsonite from Tsumeb; galena from Dalnegorsk, Russia; azurite from Tsumeb; mimetite from Hat Yai, Thailand; cobaltian calcite from Zaire; calcite from Carthage, Tennessee; vanadinite from Morocco; spodumene from California; two azurites; and rhodocrosite from South Africa (one carton) £400-600 |
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| 376 | |||
| A group of eight minerals including aquamarine, lapis lazuli and quartz (one carton) £40-60 |
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| 377 | |||
| A Chinese limestone rustic 'Scholar's Stone', 8ins high x 12.5ins overall £70-100 |
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| 378 | |||
| A group of eight Cornish serpentine turned objects, the largest 4.75ins high £40-60 |
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| 379 | |||
| A late 19th century continental marble ink stand, carved from Languedoc marble from Carcassone, France, 8ins x 6.5ins £40-60 |
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| 380 | |||
| A plaster model of the 'Welcome' gold nugget 20ins x 11ins, (with exhibition label) £100-200 |
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| 381 | |||
| A 19th century collection of metals and ores contained in two wood display cases with lift off glass tops, each case 15ins x 11.7ins x 2.25ins, containing sixty varied minerals and smelted metals, manuscript labels to each, with brief printed explanation of the contents (presumably from a 19th century exhibition) £200-400 |
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| 382 | |||
| Florentine Pietra Dura box - A black carved wood box, the olive wood base marked en60 3S, the hinged lid decorated with Pietra Dura poppies and daisies inset in black marble, 9ins x 6.5ins x 3ins, late 19th Century, Florence, Italy £500-600 |
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| 383 | |||
| A small Victorian mahogany collector's cabinet, fitted sixteen shallow drawers with bone knobs, two glazed doors, 16ins x 13.2ins x 10.7ins £80-120 |
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| 384 | |||
| A Cornish serpentine barometer on turned stand, 13.5ins high; and a 19th Century Cornish desk thermometer with rounded top, 6ins high, the scale labelled Murphy, Penzance £80-120 |
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| 385 | |||
| A Cornish serpentine vase 9.5ins high; an onyx vase 7ins high; and a 19th Century Welsh slate obelisk carved with Egyptian hieroglyphics, 17.5ins high £40-60 |
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| 386 | |||
| Quartz spheres - a group of twenty-three spheres and eggs carved from clear quartz, the majority with rutile inclusions, all from Minas Gerais, Brazil (one carton) £250-400 |
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| 387 | |||
| Chinese fluorite - forty-seven facetted fluorites, various colours, from China (one carton) £50-100 |
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| 388 | |||
| Polished quartz - thirteen specimens - four spheres, two obelisks, a rutilated quartz crystal etc., all from Minas Gerais, Brazil, and Swiss quartz with byssolite inclusions (one carton) £250-300 |
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| 389 | |||
| Mineral spheres - seventeen spheres and eggs carved from lapis lazuli, rhodonite, jade, jasper, malachite etc. (one carton) £100-150 |
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| 390 | |||
| Ornamental minerals - eight polished specimens - three orbicular jasper from Madagascar; malachite from the Congo; 'tiger eye' crocidolite from South Africa; red jasper from Angus, Scotland; chrome muscovite from Karelia, Russia; and Hertfordshire 'pudding stone' (one carton) £80-120 |
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| 391 | |||
| Geodes - three geodes cut in half and polished from Chihuahua, Mexico; two half geodes also from Mexico, one amethystine; and two polished geode halves from Minas Gerais, Brazil (one carton) £40-60 |
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| 392 | |||
| Labradorite - six polished specimens from Madagascar (one carton) £80-120 |
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| 393 | |||
| Agate - seven agate nodules including two 'eye' agates, the faces polished, from Uruguay and Paraguay, all from the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences Museum collection (one carton) £80-120 |
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| 394 | |||
| Polished minerals - two green and 'mutton fat' jades from Hpakan, Burma; two Siberian nephrite jades; bloodstone from India; ruby in zoisite from Tanzania; and malachite from Zaire (one carton) £200-300 |
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| 395 | |||
| Lapis lazuli - six specimens from Afghanistan, the two largest polished (one carton) £150-200 |
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| 396 | |||
| A Siberian malachite specimen with polished faces, collected in the 19th century, 9.25ins x 6ins x 4.75ins high, ex. William Vaux collection, Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences collection no. 9463 £600-800 |
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| 397 | |||
| A malachite specimen with polished faces, from the Congo (Zaire), 9.5ins x 6.5ins x 3.25ins high £100-150 |
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| 398 | |||
| A collection of eight Victorian and later glass domes, six with bases, the largest 16ins tall £100-150 |
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| 399 | |||
| Two large stands with stepped moulded bases 12ins x 10ins (cut from Torquay limestone), various other stone stands, a limestone sphere and an agate mortar £60-80 |
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| 400 | |||
| Three 1920s glass display domes containing various salt specimens from Germany, each 12ins high £200-300 |
| Auction Details - AUCTION ALREADY HELD | |||
| The Contents of the Showrooms of the Mineralogists and Geologists Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd | |||
| Auctioneer: | Canterbury Auction Rooms | Location: | Canterbury |
| Contact: | Tel: 01227 763337 Fax: 01227 456770 | ||
| Date: | 12th June 2014 | Time: | 10:00AM |
| Details: | Viewing: Saturday 7th June 10.00 am to 4.00 pm Sunday 8th June 12.00 pm to 4.00 pm Monday 9th June 10.00 am to 7.00 pm Tuesday 10th June 10.00 am to 5.00 pm Wednesday 11th June 10.00 am to 5.00 pm Thursday 12th June 8.30 am to 10.00 am |
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