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LOT 1964
Natural History - Amethyst Crystal Specimen
4 1/2 in. (667 grams, 11.5 cm).
An amethyst specimen with well-defined crystals within the cavern, in various sizes, the colours ranging from lavender to dark purple. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Brazil.
Private Shropshire, UK collection.
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Natural History - Large Historic Citrine Crystal Specimen
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A substantial section of a natural geode with richly coloured citrine crystals to the inner face. 2.69 kg, 16 cm
Essex gallery, early 2000s. -
Natural History - Fossil Woolly Mammoth Bone
Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
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Natural History - Three-Dimensional Mosasaur Skull with Vertebrae
Cretaceous Period, 145-65 million years B.P.Estimate: £2,500 - 3,500 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,250
A fossil Mosasaur sp. displaying the skull with at least 33 teeth surviving in the upper and lower jaw, many with remains of enamel, alongside the remains of at least 15 of the animal's vertebrae; a juvenile on a sedimentary matrix wrapped in a plaster field jacket. 19.7 kg, 62 cm wide
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. This lot has been checked against the Interpol Database of stolen works of art and is accompanied by search certificate number no.11722-197505.
Mosasaurs (from the Greek for 'lizard') were aquatic dinosaurs which probably gave birth to live young.
