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Comprising five freestanding specimens with polished faces, some with enhanced colouring. 2.35 kg total, 10.7-11.4 cm



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

Comprising: calcite from Dulcote Quarry, Wells, Somerset; quartz from Wheal Wrey, St Ive, Cornwall; sphalerite and chalcopyrite from Great South Tolgus, Tarewaste, Cornwall; pyrite from Trevaunance Cove, St Agnes, Cornwall; goethite from Barngate Level, Restormel Royal Iron Mine, Lostwithiel, Cornwall; quartz on fluorite from Wheal Mary Ann, Menheniot, Cornwall; goethite and quartz from Cornwall; quartz from Royal Restormel Mine, Lostwithiel, Cornwall; pyrite from Cornwall. 3.42 kg total, 6.3-12.6 cm



From the property of a Cornwall, UK, gentleman.

Composite plate with cut ammonite slices set in resin. 124 grams, 12 cm



From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

Comprising a quantity of small specimens in a display box. 8.67 grams total, 58 x 38 mm including box



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

An oval pebble showing mainly blue and green iridescence. 221 grams, 87 mm



From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

Composed of coin-shaped and tubular beads with a large coin-shaped pendant, restrung. 41.9 grams, 32 cm



Acquired in the 1990s-early 2000s. Ex London, UK, collection.

Composed of spherical beads interspersed with barley twist beads and a large fish-shaped bead at the centre; restrung. 47.5 grams, 41 cm



Acquired in the 1990s-early 2000s. Ex London, UK, collection.

Composed of coin-shaped and tubular beads with a teardrop-shaped pendant, restrung. 30.8 grams, 33.5 cm



Acquired in the 1990s-early 2000s. Ex London, UK, collection.

Molar tooth with some root present. 72 grams, 71 mm



From a UK private collection since at least 1946. Property of a West London, UK, gentleman.

Comprising: the body of a crab with remnants of the front claw; a large section of a fossilised lobster. 184 grams total, 5-11.3 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.

Tapering specimens with some small insect and other inclusions. 6.93 grams, 87 mm



From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Roughly semicircular head, and the genal roll with genal prolongations. 117 grams, 77 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.