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LOT 2523
Natural History - A Collection of Natural History Items
1 3/8 - 4 5/8 in. (245 grams total, 3.5-11.7 cm).
Including the skull and mandible of a primate, a scorpion in perspex matrix and various shells. [6, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
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LOT 2523
Natural History - A Collection of Natural History Items
Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
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Natural History - Boxed Polished Quartz Crystal Ball Group [4]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising four translucent spheres with some internal inclusions; supplied in cardboard specimen trays. 338 grams total, 36-40 mm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's). -
Natural History - Fossil 'Diosaurus' Crocodile Skull and Vertebrae
Paleocene Epoch, 66-56 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £442
Displaying the left side of the skull and jaws with teeth, with a number of vertebrae to the side, set on a sandstone matrix; possibly Argochampsa krebsi. 7.15 kg, 51 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Purple Quartz Crystal Nodule
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
The rounded pebble split open to reveal the internal cavity filled with quartz crystals in enhanced purple colour. 105 grams total, 50 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.