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I found the data I needed in a file on a saved VM. Sorry for the delay in follow-up - I just forgot to close this topic.
I never recovered the partition structure evidently overwritten when I ran a clean install on the wrong disk.
MORAL OF THE STORY: When doing an installation, don't get distracted ...

I reconnected drive sdb to take another look at possible ways to recover data from the misadventure of an errant install described in my first post. (Before reconnecting sdb I did a basic ubuntu 1804 LVM-LUKS install on sda just to be able to see the what the partition structure and other disk ...

I tried adding a partition at 158 182 25 and on restart I got an identifiable LUKS encrypted partition, but after entering the LUKS passphrase (which it took OK) all I got was a 2 MiB decrypted partition with nothing in it. I opened gnome-disks just to look at the disk sdb and there was about 930 ...

First time posting here.
I can’t explain how I got to these circumstances with an attempted install of a current version of Linux Mint (I’ve used Ubuntu/Mint for years – no Windows/Mac machines/filesystems involved in my issue). I completed a functional install of Mint 19.1 on a 1 TB disk sda ...