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LOT 2082
Natural History - Cased Mineral and Fossil Collection
11 1/4 x 9 1/2 in. (1.28 kg total, 28.5 x 24 cm).
Comprising: tiger's eye; amber; red jasper with one polished face and old collector's label; pink onyx(?) polished to an egg-shape; sphalerite; titanium bismuth; flint; orange jasper with one polished face an old collector's label; an echinoid fossil; bivalve in flint; a wooden egg-shaped container and others in a wooden case; accompanied by a mounted piece of granite with an old label to base reading 'from Iona Monastery June 1947'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired before 1990s/early 2000s.
From the family collection of Jack Lyttle (1944-2023), Kilmacolm, Scotland; thence by descent to his granddaughter.
Property of an East Sussex, UK, gentleman.
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Natural History - Campo Del Cielo Iron Meteorite Pair
Fell 6000-5000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising two iron (IAB) meteorites. 3.36 grams, 16 mm
From Chaco Province, Argentina, found 1576. Property of an East Sussex, UK, gentleman. Accompanied by an identification card.
A crater field of roughly 26 craters was found in the vicinity of this crater, which is estimated to date to 4-5 thousand years BP. The age of the meteorite itself is thought to be c.4.5 billion years, formed as part of the development of this solar system. The largest two fragments, the 30.8 ton Gancedo and 28.8 ton El Chaco, are among the heaviest meteorite masses ever recovered on Earth. In 1576, the governor of a province in Northern Argentina commissioned the military to search for a large mass of iron, which it was believed the local people claimed had fallen from the sky and which they used for their weapon production. The expedition discovered a large mass of metal which was assumed to be an iron mine and brought back a few samples, which were described as being of unusual purity. Following the legends, in 1774 Don Bartolomé Francisco de Maguna rediscovered the iron mass. He himself did not believe that the stone had fallen from the sky and assumed that it had formed by a volcanic eruption. However, he sent the samples to the Royal Society of London. In 1990 it became protected by law. -
Natural History - Large Historic Fluorite Crystal Flower Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
The white and lavender-coloured crystals on an irregular matrix. 346 grams total, 13 cm
Ex Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's). -
Natural History - Megalodon Giant Shark Fossil Tooth
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Carcharocles megalodon tooth with some good enamel. 100 grams, 78 mm
From Florida, USA. Collected between 1930 and 1960. From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.
