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Ancient Art, Antiquities, Natural History & Coins
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.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): £39
Displaying hexagonal vanadinite crystals on cockscomb type barite, collection number 567, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label. 54 grams, 48 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): £26
Comprising two Carpopenaeus sp. specimens. 230 grams, 11.9 cm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
Displaying a bed of prismatic green crystals, collection number 604; acquired from Harrods, London, in 1986. 30 grams, 70 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 Harrods invoice.
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 Harrods invoice.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
Diplomystus sp. fossil fish on a matrix slab showing good anatomical detail. 1.46 kg, 19.4 x 15.6 cm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
.jpg "Natural History - Polished Baltic Amber with Insects")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £442
Showing three insect inclusions. 1.2 grams, 22 mm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
![Natural History - Large Brown Obsidian Volcanic Glass Specimen Group [34]](https://timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/small/207974-s(1).jpg "Natural History - Large Brown Obsidian Volcanic Glass Specimen Group [34]")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising variously sized, brown to dark brown coloured chunks. 1.43 kg total, 38-53 mm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
Comprising: cherry-red rhodonite on galena from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, collection number 559, with an old ISIS Minerals label; emerald-green dioptase from Harlequin Mine, Pinal County, Arizona, USA, collection number 152; apple-green pyromorphite from Ussel, Correze, France, collection number 552; orange stilbite, collection number 92; rubellite from USA , collection number 129; gypsum from Oxfordshire, England, collection number 15; sphalerite from Brazil, collection number 93; limonite from England, collection number 537; corundum from Madagascar, collection number 8. 123 grams total, 14-39 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.
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.
Consisting of a cluster of cubic and prismatic rectangular crystals, collection number 578, with an old Geologisch Centrum label. 174 grams, 11 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.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Comprising a Goniatite sp. and an Orthoceras sp. set on a textured freestanding matrix. 935 grams, 15.6 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
.jpg "Natural History - Polished Fossil Goniatite and Orthoceras Stand")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Set on a textured freestanding matrix and polished to reveal the internal gas chambers. 710 grams, 15.5 cm
From the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, North Africa.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
From the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, North Africa.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Comprising: orange calcite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 314; cupro-adamite on goethite from Laurium, Greece, collection number 523 with old Gregory, Bottley and Lloyd label; a cut and polished amethyst section from Brazil, collection number 360; sodalite, collection number 84; grey agate, collection number 165; four samples of marcasite from Sparta, Illinois, USA, collection number 612; epidote on quartz from Cape Province, South Africa, collection number 418; realgar on orpiment from Nevada, USA, collection number 147 with an old Gemstones Ltd. invoice; green conichalcite, collection number 497. 433 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.
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.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Large specimen with lemon-yellow crystals, collection number 516; repaired. 778 grams, 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.
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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