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LOT 2578
Natural History - Fossil Knightia Fish
EOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 58-33 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 3/8 in. (65 grams, 85 mm).
Knightia alta fish showing good detail to the body and fins. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
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Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising: a cut and polished section of blue laced agate from South Africa, collection number 239; green epidote from South Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 221; calcite on amethyst from Brazil, collection number 132; pyromorphite from Pribram, Czechoslovakia, collection number 445; azurite from Brazil, collection number 337; an amethyst geode section from Morocco, collection number 297; green tourmaline from Brazil, collection number 145; realgar on orpiment from Humboldt County, Nevada, USA, collection number 217; sodalite from South Africa, collection number 252. 1.34 kg total, 3.7-12.5 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. Each specimen accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
Natural History - Large Historic 'Romania' Quartz with Pyrite and Sphalerite Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Displaying fine examples of hopper quartz crystals and well-formed sphalerite crystals; purchased for £30.00 from Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd, in the 1980s, with an old label. 1.08 kg, 12.7 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. -
Very Large Matrix with Fossil Otodus Shark Teeth
Eocene Period, circa 56-33 million years BPSold for (Inc. bp): £572
A huge montage of over fifty large fossil Otodus obliquus shark teeth, set recently in a matrix. 35.1 kg, 52 cm
From a Cambridgeshire collection; from Morocco. From the Horton collection, UK.
