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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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LOT 2082
Natural History - Cased Mineral and Fossil Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
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Natural History - Polished Agate Crystal Geode Half Group [20]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Each cut to expose the layered structure, some with cavities filled with small quartz crystals. 1.25 kg total, 44-68 mm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's). -
Natural History - Large Fossil Clavilithes Gastropod
Eocene Period, circa 40 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Clavilithes macrospira showing a good structure of the shell; supplied in a cardboard specimen tray. 263 grams, 13.5 cm
Collected between 1930 and 1960. From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill. -
Natural History - Large Fossil Orthoceras 'Rocket' Display
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
The extinct nautiloid cephalopod polished to reveal the internal gas chambers and set on a textured freestanding matrix. 15.8 kg, 1.01 m
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.