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LOT 3193
Mineral and Crystal Specimen Collection
1 - 3 3/8 in. (655 grams total, 24-86 mm).
Comprising: adamite from Durango, Mexico; hemimorphite from Chihuahua, Mexico; blue fluorite; pink corundum in matrix; rock crystal; a cleaved fluorite octahedron with blue banding; orange 'hedgehog' calcite specimen; vanadinite, and others. [10,No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of Mr Carlos Bahamonde, Manchester, UK.
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LOT 3193
Mineral and Crystal Specimen Collection
Estimate £50 - 70€58 - 81 (for guidance only)$68 - 95 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Polished Baltic Amber with Spider
Oligocene Period, circa 45 million years B.P.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Translucent orange amber with a spider inclusion. 1.97 grams, 23 mm
From a UK collection formed in the 1980s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Polished Baltic Amber with Midge
Oligocene Period, circa 45 million years B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Translucent orange amber with a midge insect inclusion. 2.85 grams, 34 mm
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Large Fossil Woolly Mammoth Partial Skull
Ice Age, circa 20,000 B.P.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Fragment of the skull of an adult woolly mammoth (E. primigenius) tooth-sockets in jaw and portion of the associated brain pan. 1.32 kg total, 23.5 cm
From Doggerland, the now disappeared land bridge between the UK and the Netherlands. Dredged from the North Sea by Dutch fisherman. Property of a Bristol, UK, gentleman collector.
