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LOT 2279
Large Group of One Hundred [100] Amethyst Crystal Sections
5/8 - 2 in. (1.74 kg total, 17-49 mm).
Comprising one hundred irregular geode sections with prismatic amethyst crystals. [100, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Brazil.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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LOT 2279
Large Group of One Hundred [100] Amethyst Crystal Sections
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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Natural Fossil Coral Head
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Domed coral head with concentric structure underneath, and the upper face showing calyx indentations. 585 grams, 12.5 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Large Fossil Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Jaw Fragment
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-65 million years B.P.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Large jaw fragment set with two teeth, with another two showing within the jaw. 582 grams, 16.1 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
The Mosasaur is an extinct, large marine reptile dinosaur with an elongated body, long snout and paddle-like limbs. Found worldwide, they competed with other well-known sea predators of the Late Cretaceous, such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, for food, existing primarily on a diet of ammonoids, cuttlefish and fish. -
Large Woolly Rhinocerous Leg Bone
Pleistocene Epoch, Devensian Age, circa 110,000-12,000 years B.P.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Bids: 2 | Current Bid: £10
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.
