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LOT 2503
Natural History - Fossil Ichthyosaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Coprolite
EARLY JURASSIC PERIOD, CIRCA 199 MILLION YEARS B.P.
2 in. (32 grams, 52 mm).
Irregular coprolite with tiny fish-bone inclusions. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Broad Ledge, near Church Cliffs, Lyme Regis, Dorset, 2004.
From a Leicestershire, UK, collection.
Accompanied by a copy of a previous illustrated catalogue page.
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LOT 2503
Natural History - Fossil Ichthyosaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Coprolite
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
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Natural History - Historic Epidote Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Displaying a bed of prismatic green crystals, collection number 604; acquired from Harrods, London, in 1986. 30 grams, 70 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. Accompanied by an original historic index file card and an old Harrods invoice. -
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising: gypsum, no collection number; garnet schist, collection number 191; red granite, collection number 399; Blue John from Derbyshire, England, collection number 484, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label; a cut and polished slice of septarian nodule from USA, collection number 117; limestone from Skiathos Island, Greece, collection number 510; kermesite with stibnite from Pezinok, Czechoslovakia, collection number 601; mica, collection number 366; pyrite and chlorite in matrix slate from Devon, England, collection number 46. 1.28 kg total, 5.1-12.1 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. Five specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
Natural History - Historic 'Cornwall' Bournonite and Arsenopyrite or Sphalerite Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Displaying the characteristic 'cog-wheel' shaped twins of bournonite, collection number 420. 135 grams, 62 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. Accompanied by an original historic index file card and an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label.
