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Sold for (Inc. bp): £23,400
Sold for (Inc. bp): £31,200
Sold for (Inc. bp): £48,100
Sold for (Inc. bp): £15,600
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46,800
Lot No. 2385
6
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising a large group of attractive seashells in a variety of colours and types, including spiral and spiky specimens. 1.07 kg total, 2.2-13 cm

Acquired from various sources within the UK.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.

Cut from a fossiliferous matrix with a larger Goniatite sp. ammonite set on the lid. 538 grams, 92 x 92 mm

From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

A Rastellum carinatum fossil bivalve. 121 grams, 66 mm

From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

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.
Comprising two Onchopristus numidus snout spines. 20 grams total, 47-51 mm

From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

A conserved and varnished juvenile Mammuthus primigenius tooth. 412 grams, 10.8 cm

Dredged from the North Sea, probably from Brown Bank, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, UK.
From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector.

Lot No. 2390
14
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Comprising twenty mineral specimens polished to small eggs, including rose quartz, red jasper, moss agate, agate, dalmatian jasper, and others. 449 grams total, 26-29 mm

Acquired within the UK.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.

Cornuproetus sp. displaying distinctive swept-back genal spines. 372 grams, 10 cm

From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Lot No. 2392
10
Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
With rounded brain-pan, articulating mandible; perhaps Homo habilis. 1.54 kg, 20.2 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.

A polished irregular piece of amber with a large insect inclusion. 1.2 grams, 23 mm

From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Lot No. 2394
3
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising tubular, fusiform and other beads; the centrepiece an elbow-shaped bead with ring-and-dot ornament. 35 grams, 45 cm

Acquired on the London, UK, art market in the 1990s.
Ex London, UK, gallery.

Comprising an opened nodule with a Dactylioceras commune sp. specimen. 340 grams total, 56-86 mm

From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Comprising three Mellitella sp. fossil ammonites with well preserved ribs. 20.2 kg, 46.5 cm

From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

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