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LOT 2738
Natural History - Fossil Petraster Starfish on Matrix
ORDOVICIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 485-444 MILLION YEARS B.P.
6 1/8 in. (711 grams, 15.5 cm).
Showing a complete and a partial Petraster sp. specimen; repaired. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Ex property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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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. -
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Natural History - Flexicalymene Fossil Trilobite Nodule
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
The nodule opened to reveal the positive and negative of the fossilised Flexicalymene sp. trilobite. 283 grams, 77 mm
From Morocco, North Africa. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Fossil Ginko Leaf
Carboniferous Period, 359-299 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
The light-coloured specimen on an irregular matrix. 88 grams, 73 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
