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LOT 2397
Large Polished Orthoceras Fossil Oval Platter
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 400 MILLION YEARS B.P.
14 in. (1.42 kg total, 35.5 cm).
Shallow platter carved from fossiliferous stone containing several Orthoceras specimens. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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LOT 2397
Large Polished Orthoceras Fossil Oval Platter
Estimate £60 - 80€70 - 93 (for guidance only)$81 - 108 (for guidance only)
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Historic Roman 'Spartan Basalt' Cut Green Porphyry Strip Group
Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Bids: 2 | Current Bid: £15
Cut and polished sections, mined in Greece, cut and polished on both sides, probably recycled material mined in ancient Roman times. 225 grams total, 4.4-15.1 cm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
Also known as Lapis Lacedaemonius and Porfido Verde Antico, a type of green porphyry quarried in Greece. Spartan basalt is a form of andesite or volcanic rock known today only from a single source in the village of Krokees on the Peloponnese in Greece. In addition, ancient sources mention a quarry of Lapis Lacedaemonius in Taygetus. -
Fossil Shrimp Cluster
Late Cretaceous, circa 100.5-93.9 million years B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Polygonal matrix with a number of shrimp fossils. 283 grams, 16.2 cm
From Lebanon. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Polished Fossil Goniatite Specimen Collection
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising three polished specimens showing the internal structure. 360 grams total, 60-91 mm
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.
