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Ancient Art, Antiquities, Natural History & Coins
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.jpg "Egyptian Granite Head of a Dignitary")
.jpg "Roman Marble Portrait of a Boy as Worshipper of Isis")
.jpg "Larger Than Life-Size Roman Bronze Sandaled Foot")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20,800
.jpg "Byzantine Porphyry Relief with Cross Surrounded by Two Birds")
.jpg "Carved Marble Memento Mori Skull")
.jpg "Natural History - A Collection of Fossils")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Mixed group including Perisphinctids indogermanus ammonite, Goniatite and Orthoceras. 584 grams total, 7.4-15.5 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.
Comprising: pyrite from Italy on a granite stand; granite from Middlesex, England, collection number 534; halite(?), no collection number; granite from the A40 construction works, Middlesex, collection number 502; basalt, collection number 225; bornite, collection number 178; quartz, no collection number; granite from adjacent to Ruislip Road, Greenford, Middlesex, England, collection number 462; an unidentified banded specimen, possibly slag, no collection number. 1.1 kg total, 2.1-10.9 cm
Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970.
From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent.
Five specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.
Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970.
From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent.
Five specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.
Comprising: brown calcite, collection number 321; quartz from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 206; agate geode section from Brazil, collection number 57; talc from Tyrol Province, Austria, collection number 136; mounted on a display base; yellow sulphur from Mexico, collection number 73; cut marcasite nodule, collection number 163; calcite from Cirvela, Sinaloa, Mexico, collection number 249; baryte and quartz on chalcosine, collection number 389; chalcopyrite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 253. 2.47 kg total, 7.2-11.9 cm
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.
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.
Comprising: pink calcite, collection number 40; conichalcite with chrysocolla from Ojvela Mine, Mapimi, Mexico, collection number 618 with old Richard Tayler Minerals label; quartz from Cumbria, collection number 19; cluster of colourless quartz crystals from Madagascar, collection number 67; calcite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 316; actinolite from Norway, collection number 328; campylite from Carrock Fell, Cumbria, England, collection number 279; galena from England, collection number 234; chalcotrichite from Pendarves Mine, level 6, Tryphena Lode, Cornwall, England, collection number 571 with old Gregory, Bottley and Lloyd label. 433 grams total, 34-65 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.
Eight specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.
Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970.
From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent.
Eight specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising pink heulendite crystals with a flower-shaped formation of white stilbite crystals, collection number 369, with an old Leolites India letter. 264 grams, 80 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.
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.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Irregular coprolite with tiny fish-bone inclusions. 32 grams, 52 mm
From Broad Ledge, near Church Cliffs, Lyme Regis, Dorset, 2004.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
Accompanied by a copy of a previous illustrated catalogue page.
From Broad Ledge, near Church Cliffs, Lyme Regis, Dorset, 2004.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
Accompanied by a copy of a previous illustrated catalogue page.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
A roughly oval matrix with a Knightia alta fossil fish. 70 grams, 10.5 cm
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a Essex, UK, collector.
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.
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a Essex, UK, collector.
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.
Comprising: granite from near Harare, Zimbabwe, collection number 587; bornite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 215; citrine from Brazil, collection number 55; schist from Skiathos Island, Greece, collection number 514; a large flint sample from Greenford, Middlesex, collection number 430; chalcopyrite from Cornwall, collection number 4; hemimorphite from Mexico, collection number 27; pyrite from Mexico, collection number 104; azurite and malachite from Mexico, collection number 75. 1.7 kg total, 4.1-12 cm
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.
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.
.jpg "Natural History - Large Cut and Polished Blue Agate Crystal Slice")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
In enhanced dark blue colour, the internal cavity with quartz crystals. 663 grams, 23 cm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
![Natural History - Petrified Fossil Tree Branch Group [50]](https://timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/small/208032-s(1).jpg "Natural History - Petrified Fossil Tree Branch Group [50]")
NATURAL HISTORY - PETRIFIED FOSSIL TREE BRANCH GROUP [50]
TRIASSIC PERIOD, 251-199 MILLION YEARS B.P.
TRIASSIC PERIOD, 251-199 MILLION YEARS B.P.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Cut in varying lengths, with some thicker sections included. 1.13 kg total, 33-49 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).
.jpg "Natural History - Amber with Insect Inclusions")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
A specimen of polished amber with insect inclusion. 2.23 grams, 25 mm
Ex private UK collection formed in the 1980s.
Property of an East Sussex, UK, teacher.
Ex private UK collection formed in the 1980s.
Property of an East Sussex, UK, teacher.
Comprising three marble samples, four semi-circular core sections and a granite sample. 3.15 kg total, 7.1-23.5 cm
Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970.
From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent.
Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970.
From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent.
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