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LOT 2769
Historic Gold Ore Specimen
3/4 in. (3.4 grams, 21 mm).
Displaying earthy-yellow, yellowish brown and gold-yellow colours, collection number 251. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970.
From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent.
Accompanied by an original historic index file card.
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Quartz with Pyrite 'Fairystone' Mineral Display Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Displaying a large quantity of small clear prismatic quartz crystals and some striated pyrite crystals. 145 grams, 80 mm
From South America. 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. -
Fossil Bos Species Fossil Horn Core
Pleistocene Period, 40,000-20,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising the curved tip of a horn, possibly from aurochs, an extinct species of bovine. 550 grams, 16.5 cm
From Worcester Terrace Gravels, Eckington, Worcestershire, UK. Acquired from Milton Keynes Geological Society in 1999. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.VM91; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. -
Polished Fossil Orthoceras Plate
Devonian Period, circa 400 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising six bullet-shaped Orthoceras sp. specimens on a textured matrix. 1.68 kg, 24.1 cm
From Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
