Comprising seven milky examples showing good play of colour, five polished. 6.71 grams total, 8-22 mm



Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

A freestanding display, polished to enhance the mimicking patterns and colours of an orca. 628 grams, 12.6 cm



From Madagascar. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Restrung using six cylindrical beads interspersed with mainly oblate beads, four of the cylindrical beads with engraved ring-and-dot motifs and circumferential grooves; central motif an elbow bead with facetted edges and engraved ring-and dot motifs. 38 grams, 46 cm



Ex London art market. Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.

A Morocconites malladoides specimen displaying the characteristic upcurved, frontal medial spine. 152 grams, 69 mm



From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Morocconites malladoides is thought to have been a epifaunal detritivore.

Comprising three specimens on a matrix. 145 grams total, 51-66 mm



From the Green River Formation, south-western Wyoming, U.S.A. Collected between 1930 and 1960. From the collection of the palaeontologist R. Gledhill.

A flat-section piece of polished amber with insect and other inclusions. 4.4 grams, 42 mm



From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

Comprising two joined leaves from an extinct genus Sapindopsis, related to modern Platanaceae family. 426 grams, 203 mm



From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Comprising various size Otodus obliquus teeth. 41 grams total, 13-39 mm



From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

A shallow bowl carved from fossiliferous stone, showing a section of a large Orthoceras sp. specimen. 218 grams, 12 cm



From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Comprising two main bodies, one with remains of other bone fragments to the side. 1000 grams total, 95 - 105 mm



From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Ceramic model of the cranium of a Neanderthal with upper mandible and dentition. 1.91 kg, 23.5 cm



From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.

Comprising three cut and polished pebbles, each containing an ammonite fossil. 248 grams total, 56-72 mm



From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.