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LOT 3156
Fossil Goniatite Polished Trinket Box
UPPER DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 385-359 MILLION YEARS B.P.
6 1/8 in. (1.39 kg, 15.6 cm).
Ammonite-shaped lidded box carved from stone with a goniatite set on the lid. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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LOT 3156
Fossil Goniatite Polished Trinket Box
Estimate £60 - 80€70 - 93 (for guidance only)$81 - 108 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Fossil Ichthyosaur Skull and Partial Skeleton
Triassic Period, circa 246-237 million years B.P.Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £500
Featuring the top of the skull with an exposed left eye socket and part of the lower jaw also visible, a number of the cervical vertebrae present, as well as ribs and part of the right scapula. 5.75 kg, 36 cm
From the Guanling Biota formation, China. Previously with Shishang Corporation, Taiwan. From a West London gentleman collector; acquired from a professional fossil company in Taiwan.
Originally, ichthyosaur fossils were misidentified as ‘Saurian’, being either lizards or forms of crocodile. The term 'Ichthyosaur' was first used in 1817 by the German naturalist Karl Dietrich Eberhard Konig, and he did not publish the name until 1825. By the 1830s, the name Ichthyosaur was widely used. -
Polished Baltic Amber with Fly and Other Inclusions
Oligocene Period, circa 45 million years B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Translucent orange amber with fly and other organic inclusions. 0.58 grams, 17 mm
From a UK collection formed in the 1980s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Carved and Polished Green Stone Vase Pair
Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Pair of small vases carved from nephrite jade, one repaired. 1.25 kg total, 89-90 mm
Acquired on the UK art market since the 1990s. From the property of a late Lincolnshire, UK, gentleman; thence by descent.
