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Large Cut and Polished Banded Agate Bowl
Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Shallow, oval bowl with thick edges and showing contrasting banding. 2.3 kg, 24 cm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Polished Fossil Coral Head Heart Group
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising five polished hearts, each showing internal coral structure. 106 grams total, 27-36 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Group of Six [6] Large Cut and Polished Agate Geode Halves
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising six cut and polished geode halves showing characteristic banding, some with crystal-lined interiors. 2.74 kg total, 9-12.5 cm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Polished Amber with Midges
Oligocene Period, circa 45 million years B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Translucent orange amber with midge inclusions. 2.89 grams, 28 mm
From a Norfolk, UK, collection. -
Fossil Vinctifer Comploni Fish in Matrix
Early Cretaceous Epoch, 150-109 million years B.P.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
On a matrix showing the characteristic elongated scales, an old collector's number 'VP206' on the reverse. 507 grams, 19.2 cm
From Brazil. 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. -
Sand Shark Fossil Tooth Group
Eocene Period, 56-33 million years B.P.Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising various sizes of Otodus obliquus teeth. 26 grams total, 17-39 mm
From a Norfolk, UK, collection. -
Group of Twenty Nine [29] Large Rock Crystal Quartz Specimens
Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Boxed group of mainly prismatic colourless specimens, some twinned and three specimens with dark dendritic inclusions. 2.93 kg total, 45-88 mm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Large Polished Ammonite Platter
Jurassic Period, circa 199-145 million years B.P.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
A circular composite plate of overlapping Cleoniceras sp. ammonites. 583 grams, 22.7 cm
From a Norfolk, UK, collection. -
Large Polished Fossil Orthoceras Specimen Collection
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising three polished teardrop-shaped specimens. 470 grams total, 14-20.5 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. -
Box of Thirty [30] Individually Boxed and Labelled Realgar Orpiment Specimens
Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Boxed group of red-orange realgar orpiment specimens set on foam bases inside labelled specimen trays. 762 grams total, 18-40 mm
From Getchel, Nevada, USA. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
This is a toxic arsenic mineral. -
Polished 'Designer' Fossil Goniatite Dish
Upper Devonian Period, circa 385-359 million years B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Carved from fossiliferous stone and set with a larger Goniatite specimen. 153 grams, 11.3 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Extinct Otodus Fossil Shark's Teeth Display
Eocene Epoch, circa 53-33 million years B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Freestanding matrix set with seven Otodus obliquus teeth showing good enamel. 1.94 kg, 16 cm
Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
