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LOT 2517
British Unidentified Fossil Fish in Matrix
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 419-359 MILLION YEARS B.P.
8 3/8 in. (557 grams, 21.2 cm).
On a curving matrix and showing good detail, especially on the scales. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Cheddar, Somerset, 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.
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LOT 2517
British Unidentified Fossil Fish in Matrix
Estimate £40 - 60€46 - 70 (for guidance only)$54 - 81 (for guidance only)
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Large Woolly Mammoth Tooth
Devensian Period, 110,000-12,000 years B.P.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £150
From Mammuthus Primigenius, showing root and interlocking vertical plates. 2.39 kg, 25 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Morton Gneiss Plate Sections
Circa 3.5 billion years B.P.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
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. -
Polished Fossil Ammonite Plate
Jurassic Period, circa 199-145 million years B.P.Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Composite plate with cut ammonite slices set in resin. 163 grams, 11.9 cm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
