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Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,940
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,160
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
A stunning fossil bivalve shell, preserved in black opal, showing iridescent colours, including blue, greens and reds. 15.2 grams total, 41 x 34 mm including caseFine condition.
From Lightning Ridge, Australia.
Private Shropshire, UK collection.
Opal is a spectacular gemstone, and a dazzling key to Australia’s mysterious past, because buried in the Australian opal fields are fossils of dinosaurs and other strange creatures that lived 110 million years ago, in Early Cretaceous times. These fossils are literally gems: teeth, bones, shells and pinecones which have turned to solid opal. Australia is the only country where opalised animal fossils are found. Opalised fossils are rare and precious; even more so because in Australia, it is rare to find fossils of any kind from the time of the dinosaurs.
From Lightning Ridge, Australia.
Private Shropshire, UK collection.
Opal is a spectacular gemstone, and a dazzling key to Australia’s mysterious past, because buried in the Australian opal fields are fossils of dinosaurs and other strange creatures that lived 110 million years ago, in Early Cretaceous times. These fossils are literally gems: teeth, bones, shells and pinecones which have turned to solid opal. Australia is the only country where opalised animal fossils are found. Opalised fossils are rare and precious; even more so because in Australia, it is rare to find fossils of any kind from the time of the dinosaurs.
A large wind-rounded pebble with its individual hollowed out 'nest', from the Kalahari Desert region, western Africa; set provided with a hessian draw-ribbon pouch. 580 grams total, 85 mm
From the Kalahari Desert.
Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
From the Kalahari Desert.
Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
A polished ovoid moss agate bead, pierced for suspension. 25.9 grams, 32 mm
Essex gallery, early 2000s.
Essex gallery, early 2000s.
A mixed group of three polished mineral spheres including two of unakite and one agate; held in white card collector's trays. 269 grams total, 33-40 mm
From Brazil.
Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
From Brazil.
Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £14
A pair of polished amethyst crystal massage wands; held in a white card collector's tray. 84 grams total, 10.5-10.8 cm
Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
A finely formed cluster of flat, hexagonal muscovite crystals; held in a white card tray with label reading: 'MUSCOVITE, Minas Gerias, Brazil'. 33.4 grams, 53 mm
From Brazil.
Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
From Brazil.
Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
A fossil beetle in matrix. 136 grams, 10 cm
From Santana Formation, Brazil.
Acquired 1950s-1960s.
From an old Bristol, UK, paleontological collection.
From Santana Formation, Brazil.
Acquired 1950s-1960s.
From an old Bristol, UK, paleontological collection.
A group of ten amethyst geode sections displaying dark purple crystals of varying size. 1.9 kg total, 6.3-12 cm
Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
A Rastellum carinatum fossil bivalve; held in a card collector's tray. 105 grams, 61 mm
From Madagascar.
Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Rastellum carinatum specimens have wide, angled ribs that have led to it being called the 'denture clam'; the zig-zag join between the two shells stopped coarse dirt and debris entering the shell and damaging its soft body. Like modern oysters, it lived in shallow coastal waters including the interstitial zone and fed on food particles that it filtered out of the sea water.
From Madagascar.
Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Rastellum carinatum specimens have wide, angled ribs that have led to it being called the 'denture clam'; the zig-zag join between the two shells stopped coarse dirt and debris entering the shell and damaging its soft body. Like modern oysters, it lived in shallow coastal waters including the interstitial zone and fed on food particles that it filtered out of the sea water.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
A polygonal matrix displaying a fossilised Ophiura sp. brittle star. 449 grams, 14 cm
From Morocco, North Africa.
Ex Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
From Morocco, North Africa.
Ex Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
A tapering finger of copal with spider and insect inclusions; held in a display box with a decorative fabric cover. 33 grams, 15 cm
Ex Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
Ex Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
A sedimentary matrix displaying at least 11 full and partial fossil 'guppy' fish; a mortality plate. 1.1 kg, 29 cm
Ex Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
Ex Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
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