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LOT 2532
2 Kg of Rose Quartz Fragments
1/8 - 1 1/4 in. (2 kg total, 1 - 30 mm).
Large quantity of pale pink rose quartz chips. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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Morton Gneiss Plate Sections
Circa 3.5 billion years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Comprising three rectangular sections of grey pink and black medium to coarse-grained biotite-quartz-plagioclase gneiss with polished upper face, each with wooden backing and one cracked. approx. 84 kg total, 85 x 58 cm each
Canadian Shield, Minnesota River Valley, Southwestern Minnesota, USA. with Phillips, New York, 3 June 1995, no.81. Private collection, Florida, acquired at the above sale. with Sotheby’s, New York, 28 April 2021, no.27 (est. $2,500–3,500).
The world’s oldest known rocks come from the Canadian Shield area of North America. Among the most ancient is the present material, Morton Gneiss at approximately 3.5 billion years old believed to be part of Earth’s first planetary crust. The swirls and layers are a result of metamorphism that incurred when the original volcanic rock was buried to tremendous depths. -
Coloured Quartz Composite Nodule
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Composite nodule with enhanced vibrant purple crystals. 187 grams total, 58-60 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Large Woolly Rhinocerous Leg Bone
Pleistocene Epoch, Devensian Age, circa 110,000-12,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
A near-complete tibia of Coelodonta antiquitatis. 1.62 kg, 36 cm
From the North Sea, 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.
Woolly rhinoceros is an extinct species of large rhinoceros that inhabited northern Eurasia and was adapted to living in the extreme cold weather of the steppe.
