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LOT 2454
Natural History - Fossil Eel in Matrix
EOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 56-33 MILLION YEARS B.P.
8 1/2 in. (1.23 kg, 21.5 cm).
Showing details of the skull and eye-socket, lateral fins and tail; repaired. [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.
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