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Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,800
.jpg "Assyrian Bronze Relief Fragment")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,160
.jpg "The Tenby Hiberno-Norse Viking Penannular Brooch")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,080
![English Milled Coins - George VI - 1937 - Cased RM Proof Coronation Gold Set [4]](https://timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/small/203351-s(2).jpg "English Milled Coins - George VI - 1937 - Cased RM Proof Coronation Gold Set [4]")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
With a composition of 92.35% iron and 6.96% nickel, classified as a nickel iron meteorite (111CD). 34.7 grams, 46 mm
From Nantan Nandan County, Guangxi Region, China.
From an old Lincoln, UK, collection.
See Graham, Bevan and Hutchison, Catalogue of Meteorites, Natural History Museum, 1985, p.253, for details of this fall.
The Nantan meteorite fell in 1516, as recorded in ancient Chinese texts; the fall exploded during descent which resulted in a shower of many individual iron meteorites over an area some 28km x 8km in Nantan County, Guangxi, China. Classified as an iron meteorite; 111CD Course Octohedrite, the composition is approximately 92% iron, 6% nickel and contains more than ten other minerals including kamacite, taenite, dominate, plessite, schreibersite, triolite, graphite and others.
From Nantan Nandan County, Guangxi Region, China.
From an old Lincoln, UK, collection.
See Graham, Bevan and Hutchison, Catalogue of Meteorites, Natural History Museum, 1985, p.253, for details of this fall.
The Nantan meteorite fell in 1516, as recorded in ancient Chinese texts; the fall exploded during descent which resulted in a shower of many individual iron meteorites over an area some 28km x 8km in Nantan County, Guangxi, China. Classified as an iron meteorite; 111CD Course Octohedrite, the composition is approximately 92% iron, 6% nickel and contains more than ten other minerals including kamacite, taenite, dominate, plessite, schreibersite, triolite, graphite and others.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Including at least one fly; with a polished body. 2.89 grams, 25 mm
Ex private UK collection formed in the 1980s.
Ex private UK collection formed in the 1980s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Of large size, polished to reveal internal detail; on a textured matrix. 10.9 kg, 92 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £910
Possibly Pseudostacus hakeliensis, together with a fossil fish, possibly Rhinobatos sp., both showing some good detail. 4.5 kg, 41 cmFine condition.
From Lebanon.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
From Lebanon.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Classified as an iron IIAB meteorite. 32.6 grams, 37 mm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
The mollusc specimen with a narrow-valved tubular shell. 120 grams, 73 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
.jpg "Natural History - Otodus Fossil Sharks Teeth in Large Matrix")
NATURAL HISTORY - OTODUS FOSSIL SHARK'S TEETH IN LARGE MATRIX
EOCENE PERIOD, 56-33 MILLION YEARS B.P.
EOCENE PERIOD, 56-33 MILLION YEARS B.P.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
The composite matrix set with a group of nine fossil Otodus sp. shark's teeth. 4.1 kg, 24 cmFine condition.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Partially polished to reveal some of the calcite preserved inside the dividing gas chambers of Cleoniceras sp. 289 grams, 11.7 cm
From Madagascar.
From an old Oxfordshire, UK, fossil and mineral collection.
From Madagascar.
From an old Oxfordshire, UK, fossil and mineral collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Containing flies together with other inclusions. 32.6 grams, 75 mm
UK collection since the 1990s.
Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher.
UK collection since the 1990s.
Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Featuring a later carved stylised face in relief. 79 grams, 89 mm
Ex private collection of a Shropshire, UK, gentleman, 1990s.
Ex private collection of a Shropshire, UK, gentleman, 1990s.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Free-standing and polished to reveal the dividing gas chambers. 446 grams, 11 cm
From the Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa.
Acquired 1950s-1960s.
From an old Bristol, UK, paleontological collection.
From the Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa.
Acquired 1950s-1960s.
From an old Bristol, UK, paleontological collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising three polished specimens on a freestanding matrix. 1.2 kg, 18.5 cm high
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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