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'.

An interesting mixed group comprising ammonites, a rib, an antler, petrified wood and others. 1.71 kg total, 2.5-15.5 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.

The nodule opened to reveal the positive and negative of the fossilised Flexicalymene sp. trilobite. 283 grams, 77 mm



From Morocco, North Africa. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Comprising three irregular sections with white crystal formations. 612 grams total, 75-92 mm



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

Each freestanding and with bevelled edges. 68 grams total, 46-54 mm



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

A cut slice of carbonaceous chondrite (CV3) recorded as: Northwest Africa 12590; displayed in a Swiss membrane box, inked ' NWA 12590' to the edge. 10.7 grams, 37 mm (58 grams total, 99 x 75 mm including case)



From the Sahara, N.W. Africa. Ex SV-Meteorites, Prague. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection. Accompanied by an original identification card.

Comprising four cut and polished geode sections showing banding and some crystallisations. 3.37 kg total, 10.1-14 cm



UK private collection.

Displaying sky-blue, light turquoise-blue and blue-white colours, collection number 390. 143 grams, 68 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.

Displaying dark chocolate-brown, red brown, and creamy white colours, collection number 209. 237 grams, 97 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.

Comprising: amethyst from Brazil, collection number 360; siltstone from the Table Top Mountain, South Africa, collection number 405; granite from Middlesex, collection number 505; cassiterite from Cornwall, England, collection number 167; two samples of sand crystals from Canterbury Sand Pit, Kent, England, collection number 173; pyrite from England, collection number 82; chalcopyrite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 193; calcite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 314; phantom calcite from Mexico, collection number 209; calcite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 316; selenite from the Sahara Desert, Libya; a quartz slice; polished malachite pebble and others. 586 grams total, 15-65 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.

Comprising: two sea urchins, corals, a shark tooth, a replica trilobite and ammonite, and others. 388 grams total, 2.7-10.6 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.

With small, well-formed emerald-green, pinkish white and turquoise green crystals, collection number 518. 24.9 grams, 35 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.

Showing bark detail on the edges, the cut faces showing attractive agatized patterns. 1.41 kg, 26 cm



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