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 irregular stony meteorite. 183 grams, 74 mm



Found near Al Mahbas, Sahara Desert, Morocco.

Chondrites originated in the asteroid belt where collisions and gravitational perturbations put them into Earth-crossing orbits. Chondrites formed as part of the formation of their parent asteroids approximately 4.56 billion years ago. They also contain material that predates the formation of the solar system, including organic matter and tiny grains that formed around dying stars.

Showing some octahedral crystals, collection number 277. 26 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.

Containing several insects and other inclusions. 61 grams, 10 cm



From Madagascar. Acquired 1950s-1960s. From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection.

Consisting of a mass of prismatic atacamite on a bed of botryoidal chrysocolla, collection number 491, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label. 114 grams, 81 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 variously sized chips for decorative use. 1 kg total, 1-23 mm



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

In enhanced dyed purple colour, opened to reveal the internal crystal filled cavity. 83 grams total, 51 mm each



From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Comprising variously sized cut sections, each with small dark purple to lavender-coloured amethyst crystals. 1.1 kg total, 26-48 mm



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

With pinkish-white and creamy white crystals in interlacing and coalescing stems, collection number 175. 160 grams, 94 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: goethite and limonite from Scotland or England, collection number 479; pyrite from Peru, collection number 233; octahedral blue fluorite crystal from Illinois, USA, collection number 475, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label; calcite geode half from Brazil, collection number 108; bornite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 192; amethyst from Brazil, collection number 26; fluorite on sphalerite from England, collection number 186; native copper specimen from USA, collection number 153, with an old Gemset of Broadstairs Ltd. label; wolfenite of calcite from Mexico, collection number 485, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label. 892 grams total, 3.9-11.6 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. Each specimen accompanied by an original historic index file card.

Comprising two matrices, each with a Mosasaur prognathodon tooth, and some other bone remains. 441 grams total, 8.5-10.2 cm



From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

A natural flowing limestone accretion with nodules and inclusions. 464 grams total, 13.1 cm



From the family collection of a Maida Vale lady, UK.

Gogottes were displayed at the chateau of Fontainebleau, France, collected by King Louis XIV (1638 -1715). They were used to decorate the formal gardens of the royal residence at Versailles, especially l’Encelade, Les Trois Fontaines and La Salle de Bal. Elsewhere, they were treasured in Song Dynasty China (960-1127 A.D.) In the 20th century, natural forms inspired the sculptor Henry Moore and others.

With stub roots. 180 grams, 74 mm



From Yakutsk, Permafrost Region, Siberia. Acquired from an old Dutch collection. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.