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LOT 2370
Large Fossil Fish in Matrix
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 122-119 MILLION YEARS B.P.
10 1/4 in. (935 grams, 26 cm).
Showing good scale detailing, possibly Rhacolepis buccalis. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a deceased estate of a gentleman collector from the Wirral Penninsula.
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Fossil Fish in Matrix
Eocene Period, circa 58-36 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
On a rectangular matrix, possibly Diplomystus. 335 grams, 16.5 cm
From Green River formation, Wyoming, USA. 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. -
![Group of Twenty [20] Cut and Polished Malachite Eye Sections](https://timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/small/256022-s.jpg)
Group of Twenty [20] Cut and Polished Malachite Eye Sections
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Comprising twenty botryoidal malachite specimens showing 'eye' motifs. 243 grams total, 18-38 mm
From the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Large Woolly Rhinocerous Leg Bone
Pleistocene Epoch, Devensian Age, circa 110,000-12,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
A near-complete tibia of Coelodonta antiquitatis. 1.62 kg, 36 cm
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.
