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LOT 2533
Fossil Ginko Leaf on Matrix
CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD, CIRCA 359-299 MILLION YEARS B.P.
2 5/8 in. (58.7 grams, 67 mm).
A light-coloured specimen on a polygonal matrix. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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LOT 2533
Fossil Ginko Leaf on Matrix
Estimate £20 - 30€23 - 35 (for guidance only)$27 - 41 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Bids: 4 | Current Bid: £50
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From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
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Large Woolly Rhinocerous Leg Bone
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Bids: 3 | Current Bid: £15
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From the North Sea, 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.
Woolly rhinoceros is an extinct species of large rhinoceros that inhabited northern Eurasia and was adapted to living in the extreme cold weather of the steppe. -
Fossil Thysanopeltidae Trilobite in Matrix
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Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
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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.
