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LOT 2806
Natural History - Boxed Historic Quartz Crystal 'Flower' Specimen
3 1/4 in. (195 grams, 82 mm).
With white to grey crystals arranged in a flower-like formation. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
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LOT 2806
Natural History - Boxed Historic Quartz Crystal 'Flower' Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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Natural History - Early Human Skull Replica
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Australopithecus Africanus cranium skull with hand-painted finish. 1.19 kg, 20.1 cm
From 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.
Australopithecus africanus is an extinct South African species of australopithecine which lived circa 3.3-2.1 million years ago in the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene. Australopithecus, means ‘southern ape’. It is based on ‘australo’, a Latin word meaning ‘southern’ and ‘pithecus’, a Greek word meaning ‘ape’. The females grew to about 110 centimetres in height and males were slightly taller at about 135 centimetres. -
Natural History - Fossil Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Tooth on Composite Matrix
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Showing the majority of the tooth and some root. 643 grams, 13.8 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
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Natural History - Mastodon Bone Face Carving
Pliocene Period, 5.2-2.5 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Displaying a later carved stylised face with exaggerated facial detailing. 102 grams, 76 mm
Private UK collection formed in the 1980s. Property of an East Sussex, UK, teacher.
