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Ancient Art, Antiquities, Natural History & Coins
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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")
.jpg "Natural History - Cut and Polished Fossil Ammonite")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Cleoniceras sp. displaying the distinctive pattern of the cross-section chambers. 269 grams total, 10.5-10.7 cm
From Madagascar.
Collected between 1930 and 1960.
From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.
From Madagascar.
Collected between 1930 and 1960.
From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.
Displaying toffee-brown, chocolate-brown and greyish white colours, collection number 123. 165 grams, 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.
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.
.jpg "Natural History - Fossil Gibbus Trilobite")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Cheirurus (Crotalocephalina) trilobite Crotalocephalus gibbus fossil on a matrix. 175 grams, 72 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 - Fossil Turtle Coprolite Group")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Comprising a pair of coprolites. 300 grams total, 75-83 mm
From the Wilkes Formation, Salmon Creek, Lewis County, Washington, USA.
Acquired during the 1980s.
From an old Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
From the Wilkes Formation, Salmon Creek, Lewis County, Washington, USA.
Acquired during the 1980s.
From an old Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
Comprising: siltstone from Table Top Mountain, South Africa, collection number 405; jasper pebble from England, collection number 409; sphalerite from Baxter Springs, Kansas, USA, collection number 477, with an old Gregory, Bottley and Lloyd label; two vanadinite specimens from Mibladen, Morocco, collection number 603, with an old Gregory, Bottley and Lloyd label; mudstone from the English Channel Tunnel construction works, collection number 212; a cut agate geode half, collection number 265; carboniferous limestone, collection number 214; granite from A40 construction works, Middlesex, England, collection number 503; diopside from Scotland, collection number 480. 1.04 kg total, 47-95 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.
.jpg "Natural History - Cambropallas Telesto Fossil Trilobite")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
A large Cambropallas telesto trilobite on a matrix. 1.53 kg, 27 cm
From Djbel Ougrat, Morocco, North Africa.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
From Djbel Ougrat, Morocco, North Africa.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
.jpg "Natural History - Fossil Sinosura Starfish Group")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising three possibly Sinosura kelheimense specimens, a pair on one matrix and the other with one specimen. 146 grams total, 63-70 mm
From Stonhoffen, Germany.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
From Stonhoffen, Germany.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
.jpg "Natural History - Calcite and Hematite on Pyrite Crystal Specimen")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1
Comprising brown and white scalenohedral calcite crystals on small pyrite crystals with acicular and druzy haematite; supplied in a labelled cardboard tray. 262 grams, 80 mm
From Huanuco, Peru.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
From Huanuco, Peru.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
.jpg "Natural History - Fossil Bird Bone Group")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising two hollow wading bird bones. 13 grams total, 77-90 mm
From Rancho La Brea Formation, Maricopa Co., California, USA.
Acquired 1950s-1960s.
From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection.
From Rancho La Brea Formation, Maricopa Co., California, USA.
Acquired 1950s-1960s.
From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
With dark crystal formation, collection number 414. 80 grams, 61 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.
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.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Displaying greyish white, white, black, and pale bluish grey colours, coarse-to fine-grained structure, collection number 85. 2.26 kg, 17.6 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.
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): £182
An example of an ordinary chondrite H3-5 stone meteorite displayed in a Swiss membrane box with aluminium identification label; Gour Lafkah, Western Sahara. 157 grams total, 10 x 10 cm including box
From Gour Lafkah, Western Sahara.
Ex French collection.
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Meteoritica dated 2 April 2009.
From Gour Lafkah, Western Sahara.
Ex French collection.
Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Meteoritica dated 2 April 2009.
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