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Comprising one hundred irregular geode sections with prismatic amethyst crystals. 1.74 kg total, 17-49 mm



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

Asaphus plautini with a semicircular headshield and tailshield separated by well-defined ribs. 140 grams, 76 mm



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.

Each with a cut base and polished internal face showcasing the internal gas chambers of the ammonite. 3.77 kg total, 23.5-24 cm



From Madagascar. From the private collection of a Devon, UK, lady.

Comprising two rectangular matrices, each with a fossil shrimp. 217 grams total, 78-88 mm



From Lebanon. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

Comprising: a polished Goniatite from East Timor, Indonesia; a Perisphinctes ammonite. 502 grams total, 79-93 mm



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.

Comprising ten sections, each showing external detailing. 2.08 kg total, 6-11.7 cm



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

An oval pebble cut in half and polished to a high degree with a small crystal-lined cavity on one side. 315 grams total, 80-81 mm



From Beachy Head, Sussex, UK. 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.

A complete half of a pyramidal geode, showing deep purple amethyst crystals with tan-coloured druzy quartz; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 38.6 kg, 84 x 38 x 17 cm, 112 cm including stand



From Artigas, Uruguay. Property of a London lady.

Restrung, using recently polished oblate Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 140 grams, 59 cm



From a UK collection formed in the early 2000s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

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.

Comprising a life-size reproduction of a Tyrannosaurus rex foot claw. 312 grams, 20 cm



Property of a Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman.

Comprising well-defined roots and light cream to grey enamel. 33.9 grams, 63 mm



Perma frost of Siberia. From a Netherlands collector in the 2020s. From a private collection.

Comprising five translucent, polished slices and ten cut and polished geode sections. 1.68 kg total, 5.3-14.2 cm



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