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 Jan Buma, apart from being a great person, 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 all types of worldwide minerals, and then only in the three key areas of his collection: Fluorite, Rumania, Indian Zeolites 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 at that time. 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 good 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 Zeolites and Rumanian specimens. Once again I was lucky enough to have the chance of buying his collection of Indian minerals. |
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For 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 really pleasing since Jan had a good eye when buying minerals and was buying a lot of material at a time when the prices were far less expensive 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 most of his Fluorites, keeping just a select few. Jan decided to separate the Fluorites he had for sale into two groups: ones that were 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 noteworthy. At the end of 2010, Jan Buma, after having built yet another excellent collection of Fluorite, decided to sell his entire collection, including his best pieces.
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, the 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 high quality minerals, especially considering the excellent quality and reasonable prices of Jan's collection.
Given the large number of specimens in the Buma 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 Collection as much as we have enjoyed them.
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