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LOT 2603
Natural History - Early Human Skull Replica
8 in. (1.19 kg, 20.1 cm).
Australopithecus Africanus cranium skull with hand-painted finish. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Australopithecus africanus is an extinct South African species of australopithecine which lived circa 3.3-2.1 million years ago in the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene. Australopithecus, means ‘southern ape’. It is based on ‘australo’, a Latin word meaning ‘southern’ and ‘pithecus’, a Greek word meaning ‘ape’. The females grew to about 110 centimetres in height and males were slightly taller at about 135 centimetres.
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Natural History - Fossil Seed Fern Pair Group
Middle Pennsylvanian Period, circa 300 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising two Pecopteris sp. fossil seed fern pairs. 175 grams total, 54-66 mm
From the Mazon Creek Fossil Beds, Braidwood, Illinois, USA. Collected 1930-1960. From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill. -
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Natural History - Polished Fossil Goniatite Group
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising two polished, dome-shaped masses, each with a central Goniatite sp. specimen. 858 grams total, 13.9 cm
From the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, North Africa. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Historic 'Mount Ida, U.S.A.' Smokey Quartz Crystal Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Consisting of very large, almost black crystals, collection number 607, with an old Geologisch Centrum label. 523 grams, 10 cm
Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Accompanied by an original historic index file card.
