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LOT 1850
Natural History - British Specularite with Quartz Crystal Group
1 - 1 5/8 in. (273 grams total, 25-41 mm).
A group of ten specimens of specularite with quartz; each held in a white card collector's tray and accompanied by a typed identification label reading 'Cumbria, UK'. [10, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Cumbria, UK.
Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
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LOT 1850
Natural History - British Specularite with Quartz Crystal Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
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Natural History - British Fossil Fern Group
Carboniferous Period, circa 310 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
A group of three fern specimens including Alethopteris sp. and Sphenopteris laurenti. 281 grams total, 76-87 mm
From the Middle Coal Measures, Clay Cross, Derbyshire, England. From an old Oxfordshire, UK, fossil and mineral collection. -
Natural History - Desert Rose Specimen Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
A group of 100 'Desert Rose' crystalline gypsum specimens with sand grain inclusions, mostly of single spheroid form, showing the crystal plate structure to advantage. 518 grams total, 13-31 mm
Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's). -
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Natural History - Coelacanth Fossil Fish
Triassic Period, circa 247 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £98
A fossil coelacanth Whiteia woodwardia fish showing good details, including fins, tail and bony skull structure; supplied in a glazed display case. 118 grams, 15.8 cm (280 grams total, 16 x 13.5 cm including case)
Fine condition, professionally repaired and conserved.
From the Karoo formation of Madagascar. Private Shropshire, UK, collection.
The primitive-looking coelacanth was thought to have gone extinct with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. Its discovery in 1938, by a South African museum curator on a local fishing trawler, fascinated the world and ignited a debate about how this bizarre lobe-finned fish fits into the evolution of land animals. It is often referred to as a ‘living fossil’, referencing its anomalous form in the fossil record.
