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LOT 2805
Natural History - Fossil Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Tooth on Matrix
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 145-65 MILLION YEARS B.P.
5 3/8 in. (306 grams, 13.7 cm).
Showing the tooth and a good portion of the root. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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LOT 2805
Natural History - Fossil Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Tooth on Matrix
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
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Natural History - Fossil Brittle Star
Ordovician Period, 485-444 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
A polygonal matrix displaying a fossilised Ophiura sp. 242 grams, 13.2 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising: a dolomite and quartz specimen from Nentsbury Mine, Northumbria, UK, supplied with an old M.G. Weller collection label; a cassiterite specimen from Old Beam Mine, Bugle, Cornwall, UK, supplied with an old M.G. Weller collection label; a geode section with a cluster of amethyst crystals, from Brazil; both halves of a quartz geode from Morocco; a group of thirty-five pyrite crystal nuggets of various sizes. 318 grams total, 9-57 mm
Fine condition.
From an old Oxfordshire, UK, fossil and mineral collection. -
Natural History - A Collection of Fossils
Devonian to Jurassic Period, circa 417-145 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Mixed group including Perisphinctids indogermanus ammonite, Goniatite and Orthoceras. 584 grams total, 7.4-15.5 cm
From 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.