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LOT 3187
Mineral and Crystal Specimen Collection
5/8 - 2 5/8 in. (685 grams total, 16-68 mm).
Comprising: 'peacock' ore, rose quartz, hematite, azurite with malachite, a polished 'green opal dragon egg', desert rose, quartz pebble with a polished 'window', actinolite, galena in quartz, a glass vial of Himalayan quartz. [10, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of Mr Carlos Bahamonde, Manchester, UK.
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LOT 3187
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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Victorian Collector's Cabinet of Drawers with Entomological Collection
Late 19th century A.D.Estimate: £300 - 400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
Wooden chest with six sliding drawers, each with two turned wooden knop handles; each drawer with glazed panel and insects on pins with typed labels and detailed findspot tags; winged insects (Diptera, Orthorrapha, etc.), beetles (Cerambycidae, Chysomelidae, etc.), moths, butterflies, dragonflies and others; many in good condition. 7.7 kg, 37.5 x 40.5 x 28 cm
From a UK collection formed in the 1980s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Two Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Fossil Teeth
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-65 million years B.P.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
From Mosasaur prognathodon showing dark brown enamel, repaired. 76 grams total, 50-52 mm
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. -
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Polished Copal with Insect Inclusions
Carboniferous Period, circa 3 million years B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Long, transparent droplet with an ant and other insects. 9.76 grams, 10.6 cm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
