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LOT 2752
Natural History - Fossil Knightia Fish
EOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 58-33 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 1/2 in. (83 grams, 11.6 cm).
An oval matrix with a Knightia alta specimen. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
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Natural History - Tiger's Eye Pendant Designer Necklace
20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Featuring quartz or agate beads, biconical glass beads and oval tiger's eye beads, with a facetted tear-shaped tiger's eye pendant bead. 36 grams total, 42 cm long
UK gallery, early 2000s. -
Natural History - Enstatite Happy Canyon Meteorite Slice
Found 1971 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
A scarce enstatite achondrite stony meteorite section; displayed in a Swiss membrane box with an inked 'H314.52 to one side. 7.57 grams, 29 mm (61 grams total, 99 x 75 mm including case)
Ex American Meteorite Laboratory specimen number H314.52. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection. Accompanied by an old original identification card.
The Happy Canyon meteorite specimen was ploughed up on the R.L. Grigsby farm about 2 km northwest of Wayside, Texas in 1971; the original weight of the complete specimen was reported as 16.3 kg. -
Natural History - Fossil Goniatite Display Stand
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Comprising four Goniatite sp. specimens on a textured freestanding matrix. 2.19 kg, 21.2 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.