Carved with soft facial features and carefully executed cosmetic lines around the eye, earring, and carefully detailed duplex wig with gently wavy curls; likely from the Ramesside Period; mounted on a custom-made stand.

Modelled in the round with a muscular nude body, his club resting on his shoulder and the hair dressed in rows of tight, close-set curls underneath the Nemean lionskin hood with cloak billowing over his left arm, the paws tied across his chest; mounted on a custom-made display stand.

Carved head of a prepubescent worshipper of Isis, with soft facial features, long nose, small downturned mouth, heavy-lidded eyes, the whole giving the face a sombre or mournful appearance; the hair textured to indicate a short cut and combed forward across the scalp, sidelock above the right ear; mounted on a 16th century carved breccia upper body with leather cuirass and pteruges to right shoulder, cloak draped across the shoulders and fastened at the clavicle on the right side with a disc-brooch; socle base; some restoration.

Modelled in the round and originally part of a monumental statue, the naturalistic right foot encased in a trochades leather sandal with median reversed tongue secured with side straps and thick looped laces; the thick platform sole slightly curved, toes and nails well defined; mounted on a substantial custom-made display stand.

Modelled in the half-round, nude with eyelids half-closed in sleep; a drapery partly covering the head and wrapping around the lower body under the hips; the hairstyle similar to those of the Antonine Dynasty, the peaceful face supported by the hands and the ear pierced to accept an earring; iron reinforcing rod to the feet and the right arm's armilla a later replacement; upper head restored in Parian marble.

An imposing panel divided to four sections by a central cross on a stepped pedestal, the lower and upper arm with branch-like extensions; the upper quadrants with a circlet surrounding a palm tree-shaped motif; each lower quadrant with a bird in profile facing back; mounted on a custom-made display stand.

Carved skull on a short neck with musculature and blood vessels; mandible in place with some teeth in sockets, wisps of hair adhering to the dome of the skull; one zygomatic bone partly absent; square-section socle base.

Carved in the half-round head of a Bodhisattva (probably Maitreya) with fine detailing to the arched brow, aquiline nose, neat moustache and full lips; the eyes heavily lidded, urna to the forehead, long open lobes to the ears; the hair in multi-stranded curling locks gathered into an ushnisha with brow-band below; heavily cleaned, conserved, and mounted on a custom-made stand; supplied with original old wooden base with collector's label: 'Head of Bodhisattva / Fine grain schist / Gandhara, Northwest Pakistan / 4th century'.

The horned ammonite with regularly disposed spines to the outer shell. 369 grams, 92 mm



From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

Comprising: pyromorphite from Mexico Mine, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria, England, collection number 568, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label; chalcopyrite on bornite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 33; annabergite from Laurium, Greece, collection number 493, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label; a cut and polished slice of labradorite from Labrador, Canada, collection number 444; green fluorite crystal from Queensland, Australia, collection number 524; biotite from Canada, collection number 17; amazonite, collection number 323; a polished slice of crazy laced agate, collection number 397; kyanite from Brazil, collection number 356. 215 grams total, 27-81 mm



Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Each specimen accompanied by an original historic index file card.

A Metacanthina barrandei trilobite showing shell structure, eyes and side antennae; on a matrix. 177 grams, 70 mm



From Hamar Laghdad Formation, Pragian, (Alnif), Morocco, North Africa. From an old Oxfordshire, UK, fossil and mineral collection.

Comprising large sections of geodes with variously sized amethyst crystals. 1.6 kg total, 45-64 mm



From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).

Displaying attractive brown banding, probably due to wind-weathering, collection number 363. 315 grams, 10.5 cm high



Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Accompanied by an original historic index file card.

Showing a large quantity of ammonites. 358 grams, 97 mm



Found Lyme Regis, UK. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

Entomological specimen of Eurypelma spinicrus, in glazed wooden display case. 253 grams, 15.1 x 15.1 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.

Displaying the rarer white coloured acicular crystal habit, collection number 627, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label. 29 grams, 82 mm



Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Accompanied by an original historic index file card.

The colour ranging from light to dark green. 516 grams total, 4-15 mm



Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).

Knightia alta specimen on a rectangular matrix. 397 grams, 13.3 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.

Displaying iridescent milk-opal in a pale creamy-brown matrix, collection number 625. 105 grams, 65 mm



Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Accompanied by an original historic index file card.

Primarily consisting of a single 'ball' of acicular crystals, the main spherical structure on a white matrix with a number of massive globules, collection number 550, with an old Gregory. Bottley & Lloyd label. 43.2 grams, 69 mm



Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Accompanied by an original historic index file card.