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LOT 2475
Natural History - Bead Necklace String
20TH CENTURY A.D.
19 1/4 in. (800 grams, 49 cm long).
Composed of graduated polished coral or glass beads of drum type. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
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Natural History - Mixed Fossil Collection
Devonian-Late Pleistocene Period, 395 million-125,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
A group of fossils comprising: four polished Orthoceras sp. specimens; two polished Goniatite sp. specimens; a Dactylioceras commune trilobite; a Hildoceras bifrons ammonite; two Littorina littorea gastropods; and other fossils. 1.3 kg total, 2.5-12.6 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Historic 'Laurium, Greece' Rosasite with Azurite and Smithsonite Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
A complex specimen displaying botryoidal smithsonite coated with mamillary rosasite with a sprinkling of azurite crystals, collection number 494; with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label. 193 grams, 99 mm
Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
Natural History - Historic Collection of Mineral Specimens
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising: bismuth from Czechoslovakia, collection number 417; barite from Colorado, USA, collection number 570; pyrite on baryte from Brazil, collection number 122; bournonite and chalcopyrite on quartz from Peru, collection number 442; bornite from Mexico, collection number 62; pyrite and sphalerite from Silvermine, Tipperary, Ireland, collection number 413; cut calcite geode half from Brazil, collection number 247; chalcopyrite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 193; quartz from Brazil, collection number 114. 1.57 kg total, 4.9-11 cm
Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Eight specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.