RCS/Y303F contains:
1	[A plumbago mine]
2	[Plumbago specimens]
3	[Sorting plumbago]
4	[Specimens of plumbago]

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Plumbago in Ceylon [i.e. Sri Lanka], c.1886

Title	[Plumbago specimens]
Reference	Y303F/2
Covering Dates	circa 1886
Extent and Medium	Good condition, apart from slight fading.

Content and context

223 x 92 mm. Showing a tray of plumbago, quartz and iron pyrites, presumably on display at the 1886 exhibition and described in the Ceylon Observer: 'As striking and beautiful contrasts to the dark plumbago ore, the white quartz and the brown mica, there are glittering and gold-like specimens of iron pyrites, traces of copper occasionally glorifying the golden tints with 'peacock green''.

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Sri Lanka

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