Description

An early specimen of beryl and garnet in pegmatite, found at Pointe de Combrit in Finistère, dating from 1933, from the Béhier collection and subsequently purchased by F. Barillet (1898-2003).
He was a chemical engineer and metallurgist for a major French company.
He traveled extensively throughout France as part of his profession and built up a systematic collection of several thousand mineralogical samples, with a predilection for Brittany.
Handwritten label supplied.

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