Lot Details & Additional Photographs
To include a Blue John specimen within acrylic display labeled "Derbyshire Blue John/Origin - Treak Cliff, Castleton" (2 x 2 1/4 x 3/4 in.); a miniature display with gold plated miner next to Blue John specimen set in resin, all mounted to a white stone slab, plaque reading "Blue John", signed "M" to underside (2 3/4 x 3 x 3 in.); a silver-plated jam spoon with tumbled Blue John handle (5 3/4 in.); an Elizabeth II silver teaspoon with Blue John cabochon mount to handle, mark of Shipton & Co, Birmingham (1969) (4 1/2 in.); a stainless steel butter knife with tumbled Blue John handle (6 1/2 in.); and an Elizabeth II silver sewing thimble with Blue John mount to top, mark of David Scott Walker, Sheffield (1991) (3/4 in.).
.75 total weighable troy oz.
From the New Hampshire Collection of Tatyana Archambault Blue John which is also known as Derbyshire Fluorspar, is a semi precious gemstone mineral, a unique form of fluorite with distinctive bands of a purple, blue and yellowish coloring, found only in Blue John and Treak Cliff Caverns, Castleton, Derbyshire.
Good estate condition; small chip to Blue John cabochon on teaspoon.