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LOT 2859
Coloured Quartz Crystal Nodule
2 5/8 - 2 3/4 in. (182 grams total, 66-70 mm).
An opened nodule lined with dyed pink quartz crystals. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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Meteorite Crater Tektite Specimen Collection [5]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Pebble-like black specimens of meteoric glass of various shapes and sizes. 150 grams total, 31-86 mm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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Meteoritic Tektite Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
A cigar-shaped specimen with dimpled surface. 12.3 grams, 68 mm
From South East Asia. Acquired from Organica Gems. 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.
Tektites are lumps of black or dark grey natural glass produced from melted crustal rocks that are caused by large hypervelocity meteorite impacts on sediments. -
Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Fossil Tooth with Root
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
A large Mosasaur prognathodon sp. tooth with some root, fragment of a second tooth beneath the root. 125 grams, 10.4 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
