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LOT 1937
Natural History - Aragonite 'Sputnik' Cluster Crystal Group
7/8 - 1 3/8 in. (358 grams total, 23-34 mm).
A group of 50 red aragonite 'sputnik' clusters, each formed from several pseudohexagonal crystals. [50, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Morocco, North Africa.
Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
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LOT 1937
Natural History - Aragonite 'Sputnik' Cluster Crystal Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
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Natural History - Fossil Elrathia Kingii Trilobite
Middle Cambrian Period, circa 500 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
An Elrathia kingii fossilised trilobite. 142 grams, 83 mm
From Wheeler Shale Formation, Millard County, Utah, U.S.A. From an old Oxfordshire, UK, fossil and mineral collection. -
Natural History - Large Fossil Cambropallas Trilobite
Devonian Period, 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
A large Cambropallas sp. fossil trilobite in a matrix. 4 kg, 33 cm
From Morocco, North Africa. From an Essex, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Fossil Plesiosaur Vertebrae
Jurassic-Cretaceous Period, 199-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
A pair of Plesiosaur sp. fossil marine dinosaur vertebrae in a matrix; contained within a plaster field jacket. 4.8 kg, 36 cm
Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Plesiosaurs were among the first fossil animals to reach the general public's consciousness through the publication of two imaginatively illustrated books by Thomas Hawkins, a noted collector of fossils: Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri (1834) and The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons (1840). Using the historical models of his times, Hawkins regarded plesiosaurs as monstrous creations of Satan.
