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 Jan
Buma, apart from being a great guy, is a Dutch mineral collector who is very well
known at most of the European shows since for many years he has attended them
with great dedication. At these shows he bought a large number of specimens, initially
of all types of worldwide minerals and then in the three key areas of his collection:
Fluorite, Rumania, Indian Zeolite and related species.
I
have kept up a long friendship with Jan, which started many years ago at a Munich
show. Back then I sold him one of the first specimens from the Emilio Mine, which
caught his attention as it was a new locality. Since then we have always kept
in touch and done regular deals. So when he sold his worldwide collection of minerals
I had the opportunity and luck of buying it. Some time later Jan decided to concentrate
on an even more select range of minerals: just one in fact, Fluorite. So he then
sold his collection of Indian Zeolite and Rumanian specimens. Once again I was
lucky enough to have the chance of buying the Indian Zeolite and related species
collection.
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To
each specimen Jan added a sheet with lots of information on it that we can send
to the buyer. The specimens are very commercial,
appealing, and well priced, which is the really pleasing thing since Jan had a
good eye when buying minerals and was buying a lot of material at a time when
the prices were far lower than they are today.
THE FLUORITE COLLECTION
In
2004 Jan Buma decided to concentrate on only high quality Fluorite specimens,
so he decided to sell off his Fluorites, keeping back just a select few. Jan decided
to separate the Fluorites he had for sale into two groups: one that was easier
to sell, as the specimens were relatively cheap and they were of interest because
of the localities they came from; the second were the better specimens, in which
the range of locations and the good quality were both of note. We had the luck
of being able to buy the second group.
Both
the quality of the specimens, and the range of localities makes this a really
interesting collection. Each specimen is very well documented, as it comes with
a record on which Jan noted details of the mineral, locality, when he bought it,
who he bought if from, and how much he paid. We believe that the material from
this collection should be of interest to both Fluorite collectors and to those
who collect a wide range of quality minerals, especially given the good quality
and reasonable prices of Jan's collection.
Given
the large number of specimens in the Buma's collections I could not manage them
all at the same time, so I put them into stock with the aim of selling them
slowly through the Internet and shows that we attend.
We hope that you enjoy
these specimens from the Jan Buma Collections as much as we have enjoyed them.
Jordi Fabre |
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