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LOT 1744
Natural History - Cut and Polished Agate Mineral Specimen Pair
3 3/8 - 3 1/2 in. (362 grams total, 86-90 mm).
A pair of cut and polished natural coloured agate geode halves. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Salto do Jucui, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil.
Private collection, Munster, Germany.
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LOT 1744
Natural History - Cut and Polished Agate Mineral Specimen Pair
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
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Natural History - Silver Streak Blue Kyanite Mineral Specimen Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
A group of 40 blue-silver kyanite mineral specimens of various sizes. 1.29 kg total, 3.4-14.2 cm
Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's). -
Natural History - Amethyst Crystal Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
An amethyst crystal specimen on a matrix; held in a white card collector's tray and accompanied by an information label which reads 'Antigas, Uraguay'. 113 grams, 10.2 cm
From Antigas, Uraguay. Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's). -
Natural History - Fossil Plesiosaur Vertebrae
Jurassic-Cretaceous Period, 199-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
A pair of Plesiosaur sp. fossil marine dinosaur vertebrae in a matrix; contained within a plaster field jacket. 4.8 kg, 36 cm
Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Plesiosaurs were among the first fossil animals to reach the general public's consciousness through the publication of two imaginatively illustrated books by Thomas Hawkins, a noted collector of fossils: Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri (1834) and The Book of the Great Sea-Dragons (1840). Using the historical models of his times, Hawkins regarded plesiosaurs as monstrous creations of Satan.
