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LOT 2694
Mixed Polished Stone Gaming Piece Group [50]
1 3/8 - 2 1/4 in. (741 grams total, 37-56 mm).
Each cut and polished to a wedge shape, comprising: agate, jasper, tiger's eye, rhodonite, and others. [50, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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Coloured Quartz Crystal Nodule
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An opened nodule lined with dyed pink quartz crystals. 182 grams total, 66-70 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Fossil Whale Ear Bone
Miocene Period, Choptank Formation, circa 23-5.3 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Tympanic bone from the inner ear of a whale. 153 grams, 86 mm
From Westmore Park, Virginia, USA. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.VM20; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. -
Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Fossil Teeth
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Comprising two Mosasaur prognathodon sp. teeth set on individual composite matrices. 726 grams total, 10.6-11.8 cm
From Germany. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Mosasaurs (from the Greek for 'lizard') were aquatic dinosaurs which probably gave birth to live young.