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LOT 2510
Mixed Fossil, Crystal and Mineral Collection
1 3/4 - 5 7/8 in. (3.1 kg total including tray, 4.4-15 cm).
Comprising: hematite, kyanite, agate, fossilised wood, a geode section, calcite, fossilised vertebra, and others. [16, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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LOT 2510
Mixed Fossil, Crystal and Mineral 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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Ice Age Fossilised Horse Tooth
Pleistocene Epoch, circa 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Molar tooth with some root present. 72 grams, 71 mm
From a UK private collection since at least 1946. Property of a West London, UK, gentleman. -
Fossil Ceratarges Trilobite
Devonian Period, circa 400 million years B.P.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Likely Ceratarges spinosus showing the distinctive protective spines. 190 grams, 79 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Fossil Fern in Matrix
Triassic Period, circa 228-208 million years B.P.Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Thinnfeldia talgarbarensis showing two branching leaves on a matrix. 91 grams, 95 mm
From the Blackstone formation, Dinmore Quarry, Queensland, Australia. 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.