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'.

Comprising: a polished Goniatite sp. specimens; a polished Orthoceras sp.; a trilobite; a cut half geode specimen; a polished coral head; a rostral spine; a shark vertebra; two cut ammonites; a matrix with fossilised leaf remains; and other specimens. 1.9 kg total, 2.6-15.7 cm



From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Comprising ten specimens of polished amber with insect inclusions, four in dark-coloured amber. 23.1 grams total, 18-36 mm



From a North American collection. Property of an East Sussex, UK, gentleman.

A pair of bookends formed from fossiliferous stone showing multiple goniatite and orthoceras fossils, two large Goniatite sp. fossils set to the frontal face. 3.58 kg total, 16.2 cm each



From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Comprising: stibnite from Brazil, collection number 5; phyllite from England, collection number 181; galena from Cumbria, England, collection number 3; amphibole, collection number 170; calcite from Yorkshire, England, collection number 52; a banded stone from Iraq; bornite from Galway, Ireland, collection number 2; limestone from Cornwall, England, collection number 452; calcite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 316. 583 grams total, 21-80 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. Seven specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.

The nodule split open to show the internal cavity filled with enhanced dyed blue crystals. 2.29 kg total, 14.4-15 cm



From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

On a rectangular matrix. 107 grams, 70 x 72 mm



From Lebanon. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

A cut section displaying toffee-orange brown, white, and light brown colours, collection number 342. 1.03 kg, 15.5 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. Accompanied by an original historic index file card.

Citrine is also known as 'burnt amethyst', the orange colour is due to ferric iron.

Small pinkish coloured anilite crystals on quartz on a matrix of hematite, collection number 530. 204 grams, 74 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 and an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label.

Displaying emerald-green and blue green crystals to both faces, collection number 458; with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label. 423 grams, 11.4 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.

Agnostid trilobite, Pychognostus cayanus cluster in sedimentary rock matrix. 35 grams, 58 mm



From House Range, Millard County, Utah, U.S.A. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.

Comprising: blue sapphire from Antar Village, Jamaa, Kaduna State, Nigeria, collection number 563; a fine aquamarine-blue tourmaline crystal with pale rose-pink colour towards the top of the main crystal, collection number 460, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label; cinnabar from Humboldt County, California, USA, collection number 260; talc from Norway, collection number 18; copper from USA, collection number 91; baryte from Frizington, Cumbria, England, collection number 421; moss agatev311; lapis lazuli from USSR, collection number 135; mica schist from Skiathos Island, Greece, collection number 511. 104 grams total, 25-47 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.

Comprising: scolecite from Peru, collection number 437; granite from the A40 construction works, Middlesex, England, collection number 507; sulphur from Mexico, collection number 65; chalcopyrite, collection number 317; green calcite from Missouri, USA, collection number 241, with old James Walker label and invoice dated 1977; legrandite from Mexico, collection number 490, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label; malachite from Tsumeb, South West Africa, collection number 448, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label; bornite on chalcopyrite, collection number 210; agate geode half, collection number 385. 675 grams total, 37-74 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.