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Sold for (Inc. bp): £41,600
.jpg "Attic Red-Figure Bell Krater with Drunken Male Revellers Attributed to the Kadmos Painter")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £32,500
.jpg "Roman Published Terracotta Oil Lamp with Fighting Gladiators")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £15,600
.jpg "Roman Marble Head of Hercules Wearing the Nemean Lion Skin")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,800
.jpg "The Anglesey Romano-British Marble Head of a Celtic Warrior")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,150
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,120
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,100
.jpg "Medieval Decorated He who loves from the heart, gives with a good heart Posy Boxwood Comb")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,100
.jpg "Medieval Limoges Gilt Christ Crowned on the Cross")
.jpg "Medieval Gold Heraldic Signet Ring with Goat")
Including the skull and mandible of a primate, a scorpion in perspex matrix and various shells. 245 grams total, 3.5-11.7 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
A quantity of fossilised Flexicalymene sp. trilobites on a matrix. 3.7 kg, 28 cm
From Morocco, North Africa.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
From Morocco, North Africa.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
![Natural History - Large Cut Agate Section Group [2]](https://timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/small/211373-s.jpg "Natural History - Large Cut Agate Section Group [2]")
Each showing banding and crystal formations. 2.34 kg total, 21.5-26 cm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Cut to a heart-shape and revealing the internal structures. 141 grams, 69 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
![Natural History - Unpolished Fossil Tree Branch Section Group [10]](https://timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/small/211336-s.jpg "Natural History - Unpolished Fossil Tree Branch Section Group [10]")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Showing some good bark detail and internal layering. 1.02 kg total, 39-60 mm
From Madagascar.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
From Madagascar.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
![Natural History - Large Quartz Rock Crystal Point Group [6]](https://timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/small/211365-s.jpg "Natural History - Large Quartz Rock Crystal Point Group [6]")
Comprising six clear prismatic points. 1.03 kg total, 9-10 cm
From Brazil.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
From Brazil.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
![Natural History - Amethyst Crystal Geode Cut Half Collection [6]](https://timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/small/211407-s.jpg "Natural History - Amethyst Crystal Geode Cut Half Collection [6]")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising six examples with this outer walls and the internal cavity filled with small lavender-coloured crystals. 338 grams total, 50-75 mm
From Brazil.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
From Brazil.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
![Natural History - Aquamarine Topaz Mineral Specimen Group [20]](https://timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/small/211332-s.jpg "Natural History - Aquamarine Topaz Mineral Specimen Group [20]")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising a selection of pebbles and cut sections, one with a polished face showing internal iridescence and refraction. 690 grams total, 17-63 mm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
.jpg "Natural History - Amber with Insect Inclusions")
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.
![Natural History - Polished Mineral Specimen Pebble Group [100]](https://timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/small/211429-s.jpg "Natural History - Polished Mineral Specimen Pebble Group [100]")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising: amethyst, agate, quartz, jasper, leopard jasper, haematite and others. 599 grams total, 20-40 mm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Two matrices containing fossil leaves of the Salix sp. and a Betula sp. (birch) together with other partials. 385 grams total, 6-13.2 cm
From Wyoming (Green River Formation), Uintah County, Utah, USA.
Acquired 1950s-1960s.
From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection.
From Wyoming (Green River Formation), Uintah County, Utah, USA.
Acquired 1950s-1960s.
From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Knightia alta specimen on a rectangular matrix. 1.03 kg, 19.8 cm
From Wyoming (Green River Formation), USA.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
In southwest Wyoming (and parts of Colorado and Utah) in the Green River Formation are found some of the world's most outstanding specimens of fossil fish. The Green River system was composed of three lakes: Lake Ulinta, Lake Gosiute and Fossil Lake. These Eocene lakes lay in a series of intermountain basins formed by geological events that uplifted the Rocky Mountains during the early Tertiary time. The climate was much different from the desert-like climate of this area today. Both the fauna (crocodiles, alligators, boa constrictors and some subtropical fish families) and the flora (such as large palm trees) indicate a climate much like that found along the Gulf Coast today. Large amounts of ash found in the sediments indicate that volcanoes were particularly active at this time.
From Wyoming (Green River Formation), USA.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
In southwest Wyoming (and parts of Colorado and Utah) in the Green River Formation are found some of the world's most outstanding specimens of fossil fish. The Green River system was composed of three lakes: Lake Ulinta, Lake Gosiute and Fossil Lake. These Eocene lakes lay in a series of intermountain basins formed by geological events that uplifted the Rocky Mountains during the early Tertiary time. The climate was much different from the desert-like climate of this area today. Both the fauna (crocodiles, alligators, boa constrictors and some subtropical fish families) and the flora (such as large palm trees) indicate a climate much like that found along the Gulf Coast today. Large amounts of ash found in the sediments indicate that volcanoes were particularly active at this time.
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