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LOT 2514
Natural History - Cut and Polished Agate 'Window' Group [3]
3 1/8 - 4 3/8 in. (1.47 kg total, 8-11.2 cm).
Comprising three freestanding boulders with a cut and polished upper face showing grey and brown banding, one showing the internal cavity filled with clear quartz crystals. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
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LOT 2514
Natural History - Cut and Polished Agate 'Window' Group [3]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
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Natural History - Polished Fossil Orthoceras Column
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Comprising polished Orthoceras sp. specimens on a textured freestanding matrix. 5.3 kg, 47 cm
From the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, North Africa. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Insect in Polished Baltic Amber
Oligocene Period, circa 45 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Polished to highlight the intact fly inclusion. 0.41 grams, 13 mm
Property of the vendor's father, thence by descent. From the private collection of a New York, USA gentleman. -
Natural History - Fossil Reedops Trilobite
Upper Devonian Period, circa 385-359 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
A Reedops sp. trilobite on matrix, clearly showing the external structures. 230 grams, 88 mm
From the Hamar Laghdad Formation, Atlas Mountains, Pragian, (Alnif), Morocco, North Africa. From an old Oxfordshire fossil and mineral collection.