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LOT 2465
Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Tooth on Composite Matrix
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 145-66 MILLION YEARS B.P.
5 1/4 in. (524 grams, 13.4 cm).
A Mosasaur prognathodon tooth with some root set in a composite sandstone matrix. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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Polished Fossil Goniatite Display
Devonian Period, circa 400 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
A freestanding matrix set with four Goniatite specimens. 2.35 kg, 24.7 cm
From Morocco. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Fossil Bison Molar Tooth
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
From a young adult Bison antiquus. 44.9 grams, 65 mm
From Central Nebraska, USA. 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. -
Mixed English and Spanish Crystal and Mineral Specimen Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising: goethite from Wheal Drea, Botallack, St Just, Cornwall; pyromorphite from Driggith Mine, Cadbeck, Cumbria; green fluorite from Wheal Gorland, Gwennap, Cornwall; goethite from Wheal Castle, Kenidjack Valley, St Just, Cornwall; aragonite from Los Molinillos-La Vacariza, Minglanilla, Cuenca, Castilla La Mancha, Spain; prismatic quartz from Wheal Jane, Kea, Cornwall; galena and fluorite from Blackdene Mine, Weardale, Durham; fluorite and Baryte from Milldam Mine, Great Hucklow, Derbyshire; ferberite from Wheal Gorland, Gwennap, Cornwall; ferberite from Wheal Gorland, Gwennap, Cornwall; goethite from Barngate Level, Restormel Royal Iron Mine, Lostwithiel, Cornwall. 2.7 kg total, 4.2-11.5 cm
From the property of a Cornwall, UK, gentleman.
