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A rounded geode section with highly polished borders showing white and brown banding, internal cavity lined with botryoidal formation covered with druzy quartz; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 3.7 kg total, 28 cm including stand



From Artigas, Uruguay. Property of a London lady.

A rounded geode section with towering stalagmites with druzy grey quartz; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 68.4 kg total, 100 cm including stand



From Artigas, Uruguay. Property of a London lady.

An unusual display comprising a cut and polished section of geode, lined with well-formed dark amethyst crystals and a flower-shaped cluster of calcite crystals to one side; mounted on a rotating custom-made display stand. 8.84 kg total, 47 cm including stand



From Artigas, Uruguay. Property of a London lady.

Rounded section of a geode with polished edges lined with light purple amethyst crystals; light yellow calcite to the centre with a smaller calcite to the side, both with drusy quartz; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 12.8 kg total, 37 cm including stand



From Artigas, Uruguay. Property of a London lady.

Large freestanding display of quartz with hematite, polished to a flame-like form. 2.36 kg, 18.5 cm



From Madagascar. Property of a Bristol, UK, gentleman collector.

Shallow heart-shaped dish carved from fossiliferous stone with partial Orthoceras specimens. 155 grams, 10.2 cm wide



Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Large point with bevelled edges, showing chevron-like crystal formations with contrasting banding. 717 grams, 19.5 cm



From Malawi. Property of a Bristol, UK, gentleman collector.

A nickel-rich iron ataxite meteorite specimen, supplied in a display box with an information label. 50 grams total including case, 17 mm



Property of a Bristol, UK, gentleman collector.

The Gebel Kamil meteorite fell in southwestern Egypt around 5000 years ago, creating the 45-meter-wide Kamil Crater.

Comprising two specimens, each exhibiting characteristic ribbing, repaired. 185 grams total, 73-76 mm



Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Comprising a tall, rectangular body formed of translucent cut slabs of milky stone with contrasting banding; accompanied by a separate light fitting on a stone base with US plug (not tested). 12.8 kg total, 60 cm



From Mexico. Property of a London lady.

Translucent orange amber with a large and a small flying insect, and other inclusions. 1.15 grams, 23 mm



From a UK collection formed in the 1980s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Cut and polished heart-shaped coral head showing the internal structure of the polyps. 127 grams, 73 mm



From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.