Special Auction: Selections from the Tim Sherburn Collection - Ends July 7, 2022

Tim Sherburn is a well-known collector based in the San Diego area but known throughout California, Tucson, and the worldwide mineral community both for his passion for collecting, and also his decades of mining and preparation of specimens from the Rogerley fluorite mines. He is one of the leading specialists in cleaning fluorite and has performed this role throughout multiple ownership changes of the mines there, resulting in a spectacular flow of green fluorite to the world of collectors. He has collected minerals for nearly 50 years. Tim built large collections over the years (including very specialized and fine San Diego and thumbnail suites that have come and gone) and ended up specializing in material from the United Kingdom, particularly Ireland and Scotland, and old Cornwall. He has recently deaccessioned many specimens to us, some of which we present here in the first of two auctions featuring only specimens from this long-held collection.