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LOT 2542
Boxed Realgar Orpiment Mineral Specimen Group [24]
3/4 - 1 1/4 in. (387 grams total, 20-31 mm).
Each specimen set on a foam insert within a labelled box. [24, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Getchel, Nevada, USA.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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Rose Quartz Large Mineral Specimen Group [63]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising variously sized pink chunks. 2.66 kg total, 25-65 mm
From Madagascar. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Fossil Whale Ear Bone
Miocene Period, Choptank Formation, circa 23-5.3 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Tympanic bone from the inner ear of a whale. 153 grams, 86 mm
From Westmore Park, Virginia, USA. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.VM20; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. -
A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of Eastern North America
1896 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Thomas Nuttall - Vol.II Game and Water Birds - Boston, 1896, hardback with cloth covers, 431 pp. 993 grams, 21.5 x 15 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman.