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LOT 2822
Framed Polished Fossil Orthoceras Specimen
CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD, CIRCA 300 MILLION YEARS B.P.
12 7/8 x 9 1/2 in. (928 grams total, 32.7 x 24 cm including frame).
A bullet-shaped specimen showing the internal gas chambers; set in a box frame with an information label. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From Morocco, North Africa.
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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