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'.

A large sample displaying dark moss-green, dark emerald-green and light green colours, collection number 376. 1.17 kg, 15.4 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.

A nickel-iron meteorite (IAB) set with a suspension loop and hung from a cord. 8 grams, 34 mm



From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

A crater field of roughly 26 craters was found in the vicinity of this crater, which is estimated to date to 4-5 thousand years BP. The age of the meteorite itself is thought to be c.4.5 billion years, formed as part of the development of this solar system. The largest two fragments, the 30.8 ton Gancedo and 28.8 ton El Chaco, are among the heaviest meteorite masses ever recovered on Earth. In 1576, the governor of a province in Northern Argentina commissioned the military to search for a large mass of iron, which it was believed the local people claimed had fallen from the sky and which they used for their weapon production. The expedition discovered a large mass of metal which was assumed to be an iron mine and brought back a few samples, which were described as being of unusual purity. Following the legends, in 1774 Don Bartolomé Francisco de Maguna rediscovered the iron mass. He himself did not believe that the stone had fallen from the sky and assumed that it had formed by a volcanic eruption. However, he sent the samples to the Royal Society of London. In 1990 it became protected by law.

Hildoceras sp. in an irregular matrix nodule. 1.34 kg total, 10.5-11.5 cm



From Whitby, UK. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

A palm stone formed from a colony of fossilised coral. 130 grams, 67 mm



From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Showing well-defined fringing pygidial spines. 298 grams, 11.6 cm



From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Each transparent and showing attractive banding. 257 grams total, 11.1-12 cm



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

Comprising: dioptase on mottramite from Brazil, collection number 118; granite from adjacent to Ruislip Road, Greenford, Middlesex, England, collection number 467; chalcopyrite from Messini Mine, North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 207; bornite of chalcopyrite from Massini Mine, North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 210; quartz from England, collection number 133; Blue John from Derbyshire, England, collection number 148; apatite in calcite from Canada, collection number 388; fluorite in biotite, collection number 103; pyrite in quartz from Darwin, California, USA, collection number 422. 988 grams total, 32-91 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: galena from England, collection number 234; fluorite from Blackdene, Durham, collection number 439; hematite, collection number 154; pyrite on galena from Zacatecas, Mexico, collection number 424; hematite from England, collection number 115; galena on chalcopyrite from Chilean Andes, South America, collection number 278; dolomite from Arkansas, USA, collection number 354; specular hematite with quartz from Brazil, collection number 110; chalcopyrite from New Mexico, USA, collection number 377. 549 grams total, 48-99 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. All specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.

Comprising: satin spar from England, collection number 99; hornblende schist, collection number 168; olivine, collection number 371; calcite and dolomite from Otavi, Tsumeb, South West Africa, collection number 579, with an old Richard W. Barstow label; serpentinite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 223; a cut and polished slice of amethyst from Brazil, collection number 360; granite from Horsenden Hill, Ealing, Middlesex, England, collection number 401; a cut and polished amethyst agate geode half from Chihuahua, Mexico, collection number 545; andesite, collection number 183. 1.91 kg, 6-12.4 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. Seven specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.

A large specimen displaying brownish red, blood-red and greyish colours, collection number 283. 262 grams, 92 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 Gemstones Ltd invoice dated 1978.

The specimen with a large deep blue to blue-green tourmaline crystal embedded in a large quartz crystal, collection number 336. 3.02 kg, 14.5 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.

A Stephanoceras sp. ammonite with its base cut flat for freestanding display. 1.4 kg, 15.5 cm



From Burton Bradstock, Dorset, UK. Ex old British palaeological collection. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.