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LOT 2472
Natural History - Boxed Mixed Crystal Display Specimen Group [3]
2 1/2 - 3 in. (421 grams total, 64-75 mm).
Comprising purple amethyst from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; pyrite from Huanuco, Peru; specularite with quartz from Florence mine, Cumbria; each in a labelled specimen box. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Peru, Brazil and Cumbria, UK.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
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LOT 2472
Natural History - Boxed Mixed Crystal Display Specimen Group [3]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
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Natural History - Polished Fossil Sand Dollar Pair
Miocene Period, circa 25 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £10
Comprising two polished examples. 140 grams total, 58-68 mm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Large Caddis Fly in Baltic Amber
Oligocene Period, circa 45 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Polished to highlight the Caddis fly inclusion. 1.85 grams, 26 mm
From Primorskoje mine, Yantarnyi, Kaliningrad. Property of an Essex gentleman. Accompanied by an illustrated identification card. -
Natural History - Large Fossil Shark Vertebra
Upper Palaeocene, Thanetian Stage, circa 56 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
From Otodus obliquus Agassiz 1843 (mackerel shark). 155 grams, 65 mm
From the Ouled Abdoun Basin Formation (Phosphate beds), Oued Zem, Morocco, North Africa. From an old Oxfordshire fossil and mineral collection.