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LOT 2845
Natural History - Deltadromeus Dinosaur Fossil Bone Group
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 90 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 3/8 - 3 1/2 in. (295 grams total, 86-90 mm).
Comprising a clavicle bone section and a front leg bone section from Deltadromeus agilis. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Kem-Kem Basin, Morocco.
From an old German paleontological collection.
Deltadromeus had extraordinarily delicate and long limbs making it one of the fastest dinosaurs to have existed. This meat-eating dinosaur was an early off-shoot of the theropod line on northern continents that gave rise to Tyrannosaurus and the raptor Deinonychus.
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LOT 2845
Natural History - Deltadromeus Dinosaur Fossil Bone Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Comprising: ferruginous quartz from Cornwall, England, collection number 438, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label; a cut and polished agate geode slice from Brazil, collection number 351; apophyllite from Poona, Bombay, India, collection number 176; brochantite on quartz from Bingham, New Mexico, USA, collection number 614, with an old Simon Harrison Minerals label; kyanite from Graves Mountain, Georgia, USA, collection number 616; wulfenite with mimetite from San Francisco Mine, Sonora, Mexico, collection number 488; a cut and polished agate slice from Brazil, collection number 364; a cut section of agate geode, collection number 32; eight specimens of brown crystal. 358 grams total, 24-74 mm
Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Seven specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising: a cut and polished agate slice from Brazil, repaired, collection number 352; cobalto-smithsonite from Tsumeb, Namibia, South West Africa, collection number 562; malachite with quartz from Mexico, collection number 59; actinolite from Canada, collection number 16; wollastonite from Devon, England, collection number 159; antimony, collection number 584; fluorite from Cumbria, England, collection number 9; hematite from Cumbria, collection number 7; calcite from England, collection number 102. 94 grams total, 14-50 mm
Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Seven specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
Natural History - Victorian Glass Dome with South American Exotic Birds
19th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £468
A selection of taxidermy birds including manakin, bay-headed tanager, hummingbird, oriel, and others; most seated on a branch in a dynamic pose. 2.1 kg, 45.5 cm
Ex property of a Hertfordshire lady since before 1974; thence by descent.
