Timeline Auction - Antiquities, Natural History and Coins

. A specimen of 'Silver Glance' argentite with a lead-grey coloured 20mm thick vein, plus numerous thinner veins, developed through a pale-pink co...

. A mixed group comprising: a cobalto-dolomite block from Morocco; a mass of freibergite (argentian tennantite) from Freiberg, Germany; a spray of...

. A specimen of barytes encrusted with sparkling orange-red hexagonal stubby crystals of vanadenite. 77 grams, 62mm (2 1/2"). Ex Dr M. G. 'Sam' W...

. A specimen of cassiterite, tin ore from Cornwall. 29 grams, 39mm (1 1/2"). Ex Dr M. G. 'Sam' Weller, MBE, collection, Cornwall, UK; from Harrie...

. A specimen of atacamite in small green prismatic crystals over a powdery white crystalline surface, from Chile. 156 grams, 78mm (3"). Ex Dr M. ...

. A sparkling pearly white aragonite coraloidal mineral specimen. 145 grams, 10cm (4"). Ex Dr M. G. 'Sam' Weller, MBE, collection, Cornwall, UK; ...

. A lustrous, hexagonal, pale mauve ruby specimen. 85 grams, 39mm (1 1/2"). Ex Dr M. G. 'Sam' Weller, MBE, collection, Cornwall, UK; from Mysore,...

. A domed, hematitic quartz matrix, richly invested in creamy rosettes of lenticular calcite, with an inked label on underside reading: '1086'. 9...

. A fine specimen of rich gold ore from Cripple Creek, Colorado, with native gold, native silver and calaverite (a gold telluride) on quartz, with...

. A specimen of deep red hexagonal tabular crystalline vanadenite encrusting white crystalline barytes. 72 grams, 72mm (3"). Ex Dr M. G. 'Sam' We...

. A mixed group of three varied cassiterite mineral specimens. 170 grams total, 45-50mm (1 3/4 - 2"). Ex Dr M. G. 'Sam' Weller, MBE, collection, ...

. A specimen of native gold in matrix, showing numerous fine veinlets of metallic gold, in characteristic black quartz, from the famous Witwatersr...

. A mixed group comprising: augite and adamanite crystals on matrix from Guimar, Tenereife, Spain; conichalcite on matrix from Mexico; titanite cr...

. A spectacular matrix specimen of dioptase crystals with tsumebite on a druse of calcite, from the famous Tsumeb, Namibia locality, with Dr M. G....

. A specimen of cinnabar (mercury sulphide) and dolomite from China. 66 grams, 53mm (2"). Ex Dr M. G. 'Sam' Weller, MBE, collection, Cornwall, UK...

. A large lustrous black specimen of tourmaline, a stubby hexagonal crystal doubly terminated. 98 grams, 46mm (1 3/4"). Ex Dr M. G. 'Sam' Weller,...

. A calcite and chlorite specimen displaying orange coloured rosette groupings, scattered over a conveoluted, chlorite carpeted, pyramidal quartz ...

. A specimen of siderite, a dark brown crystalline mass with hilly surface of trigonal pyramidal crystals. 242 grams, 83mm (3 1/4"). Ex Dr M. G. ...

. A mixed group comprising: a block of marcasite in cylindrical crystals from Missouri, USA; a plume of kyanite crystals from Brazil; a partial ge...

. A segment of a geode with amethyst to the inner face of the haematitic matrix, from Brazil. 1.5 kg, 19.5cm (7 3/4"). Ex Dr M. G. 'Sam' Weller, ...

. A specimen of bastinisite, a rare fluorocarbonate of cerium, in matrix. 205 grams, 69mm (2 3/4"). Ex Dr M. G. 'Sam' Weller, MBE, collection, Co...

. An unusually fine ilvaite diamond-shaped crystal with a lustrous surface, on grey calcite, from Ulhan League, Mongolia, China, with Dr M. G. 'Sa...

. Veins of native silver and black stephanite in a dolomite(?) matrix, 19th century specimen from Freiberg, Germany. 83 grams, 44mm (1 3/4"). Ex ...

. A mineral specimen displaying, tiny, opaque, grass-green crystals of Meta-torbernite with an inked label on underside reading: 'Ns. 163'. 80 gr...

. A specimen of andradite, a species of garnet, a single lustrous brown crystal with trigonal termination. 157 grams, 55mm (2 1/4"). Ex Dr M. G. ...

. A grossular garnet specimen displaying glassy, reddish-brown coloured crystals over a thin matrix. 25 grams, 42mm (1 1/4"). Ex Dr M. G. 'Sam' W...

. A polished slice of cotham marble, with inked label reading: 'Cotham Marble - the patterns are made by algae, growing in soft, muddy sediment in...

. A cuprite specimen displaying a very dark red coloured vuggy mass of lustrous crystals, with minor inclusions of quartz fragments, with an inked...

. A specimen of metallic cadmium; Dr. Weller writes: One of only three specimens of singular mining and mineralogical interest. In the late 18th c...

. A mixed group comprising: a fluorite block from Mexico; a rhodochrosite plate from Argentina; an encrustation of sphene on a block of white adul...

. A group of exceptionally large rose quartz crystals accompanied by several smoky quartz sceptre crystals, from Minas Gerais, Brazil, with Dr M. ...

. A specimen of fluorite with lemon-yellow cubic crystals forming a domed group over a limestone matrix. 82 grams, 54mm (2 1/4"). Ex Dr M. G. 'Sa...

. A mixed group comprising: a cluster of spessartine crystals on matrix from Pakistan; a pair of matrix-free fluorite crystals from Derbyshire and...

. A specimen of large sphalerite crystals from Elmwood Mine, Tennessee, USA. 151 grams. 74mm (3"). Ex Dr M. G. 'Sam' Weller, MBE, collection, Cor...

. A specimen of apophillite with stilbite from India. 1.2 kg, 19.5cm (7 3/4"). Ex Dr M. G. 'Sam' Weller, MBE, collection, Cornwall, UK; from Poon...

. A specimen of skutterudite and cobaltite, a silvery metallic group of large crystals on a crystalline mass with a small amount of associated cal...

. A specimen of calcite with marcasite probably from the 'Submarine Lode' at Levant Mine, Trewellard, Cornwall. 28 grams, 37mm (1 1/2"). Ex Dr M....

. A specimen of vanadenite with barytes, a mass of dark red-brown block crystals encrusting tabular cream-to grey crystals. 188 grams, 78mm (3")....

. A large and well-formed tabular hexagonal crystal of aquamarine with accessory muscovite; with collector's label. See Bonewitz, Dr. Ronald Louis...

. A morion quartz specimen displaying five sharp terminated prismatic, smokey crystals in divergent, matrix free association, held in a plastic di...

. A cubic galena crystal on a flat matrix with small pyrite crystals to underside. 195 grams, 69mm (2 3/4"). Ex Dr M. G. 'Sam' Weller, MBE, colle...

. A specimen containing large cubic fluorite epimorphs, ankerite and sphalerite. 50 grams, 71mm (2 3/4"). Ex Dr M. G. 'Sam' Weller, MBE, collecti...

. A calcite specimen displaying an attractive matrix, free radiate complex of spiky twinned, lustrous white crystal sprays. 130 grams, 70mm (2 3/...

. A pale to darker brown, silicified 'priapic form' sand pipe, resulting from a lightning strike on wet sand. 210 grams, 12.3cm (5"). Ex Dr M. G....

. British libethenite mineral specimen, quartz matrix surface richly carpeted in lustrous dark green small sparkling crystals; from Phoenix United...

. A solidified, slightly vuggy, black to dark brown bitchumen mass, with two labels reading: '173', 'Bitchumen'. 50 grams, 60mm (2 1/2"). Ex Dr M...

. A fine scheelite (a primary ore of tungsten) specimen consisting of two gemmy, orange-yellow pyramidal crystals resting on a mass of smaller sch...

. A cluster of muscovite and spessartine crystals on matrix from Zhangou, China. 44 grams, 55mm (2 1/4"). Ex Dr M. G. 'Sam' Weller, MBE, collecti...

. A specimen of epidote on a quartz matrix. 417 grams, 13cm (5"). Ex Dr M. G. 'Sam' Weller, MBE, collection, Cornwall, UK; formerly with Natura K...

. A specimen of apatite with siderite, quartz, dolomite and arsenopyrite from Portugal. 1 kg, 13cm (5"). Ex Dr M. G. 'Sam' Weller, MBE, collectio...

. A calcite specimen displaying pearly white, tubular hexagonal crystals over a domed yellow-brown matrix, with an inked label on underside partia...

. An apatite specimen displaying two terminated hexagonal, pale mauve coloured crystals, developed on a pegmatic quartz, with an label to undersid...

. Arquerite is a toxic (because of its mercury content) and extremely rare, naturally occurring alloy of silver with mercury. 143 grams, 31mm (1 ...

. An arsenopyrite specimen displaying sharp silver sub-metallic trigonal crystals developed over a crystalline core, mounted in a plastic display ...

. A mixed group comprising: a galena block from Spain; a celestina block from Sicily; a large scalenahedral calcite crystal from Rumania; a block ...

. A specimen of silver in bands interspersed with white quartz and granular galena between bands of barytes, from Germany, with old dealer's label...

. A mixed group comprising: an almandine garnet embedded in a coloured matrix from Nevada, USA; a cluster of cubic halite crystals from California...

. A specimen of titanite (formerly called sphene) consisting of two finely crystallized, transparent crystals in a vug subsequently part-filled wi...

. A specimen of smithsonite matrix with thick covering of botryoidal translucent pale-green with aggregate sprays of hemimorphite. 77 grams, 49mm...

. A substantial specimen of sharp yellow mimetite crystals on a vuggy domed limonitic ganque matrix. 43 grams, 53mm (2"). Ex Dr M. G. 'Sam' Welle...