Aletai Meteorite Specimen

From Mosasaur prognathodon exhibiting brown patina, repaired. 60 grams total, 47-50 mm



From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

The Mosasaur is an extinct, large marine reptile with an elongated body, long snout and paddle-like limbs. Found worldwide, they competed with other well-known sea predators of the Late Cretaceous, such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, for food, existing primarily on a diet of ammonoids, cuttlefish and fish.

Metamorphic rock slice displaying a striking pattern of white magnesite crystals embedded in a dark dolomite and graphite matrix. 903 grams, 20.5 x 15.2 cm



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

Mixed group of rock specimens, including a smoky quartz. 2.46 kg total, 20.4 - 3.3 cm



Some of the specimens were found during the original official excavations in the Farnham area, Surrey, UK, which were conducted by Harold Falkner (1875-1963) and William Francis Rankine (c.1877-1962), who were instrumental in the excavation works and pit dwellings at sites including Six Bells, Frensham, Tilford, Thursley, Bagshot, and Waverley, amongst others, at and near Farnham in the 1930s and 1940s. Much of the material is now in the prestigious Farnham museum. The present part of the collection has been gifted to their good friend and Haselmere Parish Priest, Charles Borelli (c.1914-2000) of Farnham, who was part of the Borelli family from Italy, who emigrated from Lake Como in 1828 to set up the Borelli family watch and jewellery business; thence by family descent to his nephew.