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This paper is concerned with spectral properties of the operator pencils generated by the Lamé system \[ \Delta U+\tfrac 1{\gamma} \text{ grad div } U=F \] in a cone \(K\) with different boundary conditions on \(\partial K-\{ 0\}\). The authors prove that the strip with center \(-1/2\) and width \(\sqrt{(3/2+\gamma)^2+\gamma ^2}\) contains only real eigenvalues of the operator and there are no generalized eigenvectors corresponding to eigenvalues in the interior of the strip. Furthermore, a variational principle for the eigenvalues of the operator pencil is derived.