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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")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Consisting of a fine hair-like crystals radiating from a thin barite/dolomite matrix, zaratite and marcasite also present, collection number 580; purchased for £40.00 from Geologisch Centrum, in the 1980s. 5.51 grams, 33 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): £20
Displaying large tabular crystals with fine examples if swallow-tail contact twins, collection number 533; purchased for £25.00 from the Natural History Museum Shop, in 1983. 139 grams, 71 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): £46
Comprising two teeth with partial root. 30 grams total, 62-73 mm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
The Spinosaurus was both a beachcomber type scavenger and an active hunter taking small stranded Plesiosaurs, Pterosaurs, turtles and large fish.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
The Spinosaurus was both a beachcomber type scavenger and an active hunter taking small stranded Plesiosaurs, Pterosaurs, turtles and large fish.
![Natural History - Hematoid Quartz Crystal Specimen Group [50]](https://timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/small/211478-s.jpg "Natural History - Hematoid Quartz Crystal Specimen Group [50]")
Comprising a large quantity of dark double-terminated crystals. 137 grams total, 14-27 mm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
.jpg "Natural History - Fossil Metcanthina Trilobite")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
A Metacanthina barrandei trilobite showing shell structure, eyes and side antennae; on a matrix. 170 grams, 70 mm
From Hamar Laghdad Formation, Pragian, (Alnif), Morocco, North Africa.
From an old Oxfordshire, UK, fossil and mineral collection.
From Hamar Laghdad Formation, Pragian, (Alnif), Morocco, North Africa.
From an old Oxfordshire, UK, fossil and mineral collection.
.jpg "Natural History - Large Crinoid Fossil Display Plate")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Presenting a large Scyphocrinus elegans crinoid, in an amorphous sheet matrix. 5.6 kg, 35 cm
From Morocco, North Africa.
From Morocco, North Africa.
Comprising: branching calcite from Brazil, collection number 77; agate from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 198; wavellite from Magnet Cove, Arkansas, USA, collection number 244; opaque topaz pebble from Madagascar, collection number 294; granite from near Harare, Zimbabwe, collection number 586; quartz, collection number 315; cerussite on heulandite from Ireland, collection number 499, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label; mica, collection number 366; biotite with no collection number. 467 grams total, 37-73 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.
Seven 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.
Seven specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising Eleganticeras sp. specimens on an irregular matrix. 1.09 kg, 14.2 cm
Found Whitby Dac, UK.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
Found Whitby Dac, UK.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
![Natural History - Medium Sized Green Beryl Mineral Specimen Group [50]](https://timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/small/208076-s(1).jpg "Natural History - Medium Sized Green Beryl Mineral Specimen Group [50]")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising a number of light green chunks in various sizes. 2.67 kg total, 34-60 mm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
Comprising: brown chalcedony, collection number 131; calcite from Mexico, collection number 38; siderite from Cornwall, collection number 447, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label; brown calcite in hematite from England, collection number 98; pyrite nodule, collection number 624; flint concretion from Greenford, Middlesex, collection number 211; mica(?), collection number 366; agate with quartz from Brazil, collection number 353; agate geode half from Mexico, collection number 28. 841 grams total, 47-93 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.
Seven 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.
Seven specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
On a matrix, showing good detail to the body. 142 grams, 65 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Large specimen displaying vivid yellow colours, collection number 274. 1.19 kg, 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.
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.
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