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Cut and Polished Deep Purple Amethyst Obelisk Group [3]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Comprising three obelisks with facetted edges. 81 grams total, 44-58 mm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Polished Fossil Orthoceras Column
Devonian Period, circa 400 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Comprising variously sized polished Orthoceras sp. specimens on a textured freestanding matrix. 903 grams, 21 cm
From Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Amethyst Crystal Mineral Specimen Group [6]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising large geode sections lined with lavender and dark purple coloured amethyst crystals. 1.78 kg total, 7.8-13.5 cm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Natural Septarian Egg Geode Half with 'Howling Dog Facing Back'
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
A cut and polished half displaying a wolf-shaped formation of brown aragonite within lighter limestone. 242 grams, 84 mm
From Agate Creek, Australia. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Fossil Metasequoia Fern Group
Eocene Period, circa 58 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising three irregular matrices, each with 'Dawn Redwood' specimen. 118 grams total, 50-60 mm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
Large Cut and Lacquered Fossil Tree Trunk Section
Triassic Period, circa 235 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Agatized and displaying deep red and brown colours. 2.5 kg, 30.6 cm
From Madagascar. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Polished Fossil Tree Slice
Jurassic Period, circa 199-145 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
A cut and polished section of petrified wood trunk. 230 grams, 13.4 cm
From Madagascar. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
Fossil Extinct Crocodile Skull
Palaeocene Period, 66-56 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
The upper part of a fossil Argochampsa krebsi crocodile skull on a sandy matrix wrapped in a plaster field jacket. 4.94 kg, 45 cm
From Morocco, North Africa. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Argochampsa or 'Argo crocodile' is an extinct genus of eusuchian crocodylomorph, usually regarded as a gavialoid crocodilian, related to modern gharials. It lived in the Paleocene of Morocco. Described by Hua and Jouve in 2004, the type species is A. krebsi. Argochampsa had a long narrow snout, and apparently marine in its behaviour. -
Fossil Ammonite Cluster on Matrix
Lower Jurassic, circa 199-190 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Containing small Cymbites, and other ammonites, the three larger specimens set on the matrix. 5.12 kg total, 29 cm
From Yorkshire coast. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
Whitby Dactylioceras Fossil Ammonite
Jurassic Period, Toarcian Stage, circa 180 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Rounded pebble half containing a Dactylioceras commune specimen. 308 grams, 80 mm
From Yorkshire coast. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 207 grams, 59 cm
Ex West country, UK, collection, 1990s onwards.
The mammoth lineage branched from the Asian elephant around 6 million years ago, and later on the Woolly Mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, evolved in eastern Siberia. Woolly mammoths, being slightly smaller than living African elephants, were foragers and ate grass, as well as small, nutritious flowering plants that flourished in the environment where they lived. They may also have used their curved tusks to dig through snow and eat plants that other foragers were unable to reach. -
Boxed Quartz Rock Crystal Specimen Collection [6]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising six crystal clusters, each with attractive clear prismatic crystals. 366 grams total, 50-76 mm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.