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LOT 2314
Banded Agate Vase
4 1/8 in. (484 grams, 10.5 cm).
With an hourglass-shaped body, a small opening to the base of the top, enabling it to be used as a candlestick as well. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the family collection of a Hampstead gentleman; formerly acquired in the 1980s.
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Bactrian Style Rock Crystal Bead Necklace String
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Restrung with mainly facetted biconical beads with one cornerless cube bead. 166 grams, 60 cm
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Androgynoceras Maculatum Fossil Ammonite
Early Jurassic Period, circa 170-168 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
An irregular matrix containing a large Androgynoceras maculatum, bivalves and other fossils. 1.52 kg, 16.5 cm
From Eype, Dorset, UK. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
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Historic Roman 'Spartan Basalt' Cut & Polished Green Porphyry Sheet Group [3]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
Large cut and polished sections, mined in Greece, cut and polished on both sides, probably recycled material mined in ancient Roman times. 375 grams total, 11.4-13.3 cm
From Greece. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
Also known as Lapis Lacedaemonius and Porfido Verde Antico, a type of green porphyry quarried in Greece. Spartan basalt is a form of andesite or volcanic rock known today only from a single source in the village of Krokees on the Peloponnese in Greece. In addition, ancient sources mention a quarry of Lapis Lacedaemonius in Taygetus.
