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Comprising two teeth with partial roots; repaired. 30 grams total, 55-64 mm

From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

The Spinosaurus was both a beachcomber type scavenger and an active hunter taking small stranded Plesiosaurs, Pterosaurs, turtles and large fish.
A large polished Goniatite sp. specimen showing the internal gas chambers. 809 grams, 16 cm

From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Cut to a heart shape and polished to reveal the internal structure. 99 grams, 67 mm

From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

In matrix with rows of molar teeth in situ. 7.35 grams, 31 mm

From Kingsthorpe, Gloucestershire, UK, 1960s.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.

Accompanied by a previous typed information card.

An ovoid Ophidia egg on an irregular matrix. 75 grams, 54 mm

From France.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

Comprising two mosasaur teeth set in composite sandstone matrices. 964 grams total, 116 - 130 mm

From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

An opened nodule containing Dactylioceras commune sp. 132 grams, 62 mm

From Yorkshire coast.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

Lot No. 2554
 
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
A large cluster of silicon carbide showing beautiful iridescence. 1 kg, 16 cm

From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.

Carborundum rarely occurs in nature, but is commercially formed by heating carbon and silicon at very high temperatures, producing extremely strong bands of crystals.
A polished irregular piece of amber with insect and other inclusions. 7.3 grams, 40 mm

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

A large section of Mammuthus primigenius leg bone; repaired. 1.05 kg, 19 cm

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

See Guide to the Elephants (Recent and Fossil) in the British Museum (Natural History), BM, 1922, pp.35-47, for discussion.

Comprising a large Otodus obliquus tooth; supplied in a display frame. 28.3 grams, 60 mm (64 grams total, 13 cm high including case)

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

An irregular matrix containing a large quantity of Pecopteris sp. ferns. 324 grams, 19 cm

From Pennsylvania, USA.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

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