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LOT 2556
Meteorite Crater Tektite Specimen Collection [5]
1 1/4 - 3 3/8 in. (150 grams total, 31-86 mm).
Pebble-like black specimens of meteoric glass of various shapes and sizes. [5, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
Tektites are lumps of black or dark grey natural glass produced from melted crustal rocks that are caused by large hypervelocity meteorite impacts on sediments.
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Spinosaurus Fossil Dinosaur Tooth Group
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Comprising three Spinosaurs maroccanus teeth; repaired. 52 grams total, 58-61 mm
From Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
The Spinosaurus was both a beachcomber type scavenger and an active hunter taking small stranded Plesiosaurs, Pterosaurs, turtles and large fish. -
Fossil Woolly Mammoth Tooth Partial
Devensian Period, 110,000-12,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
From Mammuthus primigenius, inked collection number '43' to the side. 695 grams, 13.5 cm
From Pitstone Gravels, Hertfordshire, UK. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.VM43; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. -
Polished Fossil Goniatite Stand
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
A display comprising four polished Goniatite sp. specimens on a textured freestanding matrix. 1.47 kg, 18 cm
From Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
