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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 'Peru' Rhodochrosite and Quartz Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
With pinkish white, pale pink and brownish black crystals, collection number 374. 335 grams, 11.4 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 and an old James Walker label. -
Natural History - Historic 'Laurium, Greece' Rosasite with Azurite and Smithsonite Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
A complex specimen displaying botryoidal smithsonite coated with mamillary rosasite with a sprinkling of azurite crystals, collection number 494; with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label. 193 grams, 99 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. -
Natural History - Mixed Fossil and Mineral Collection
Mainly Devonian-Cretaceous Period, 395-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising: a polished Goniatite sp. specimens; a polished Orthoceras sp.; a trilobite; a cut half geode specimen; a polished coral head; a rostral spine; a shark vertebra; two cut ammonites; a matrix with fossilised leaf remains; and other specimens. 1.9 kg total, 2.6-15.7 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
