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LOT 1813
Natural History - Fossil Phacops Trilobite
UPPER DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 419-358 MILLION YEARS B.P.
1 3/4 in. (120 grams, 46 mm).
Phacops rana trilobite on a freestanding matrix. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
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Natural History - Historic Mixed Tsumeb Mineral Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising: prismatic quartz crystals; brucite from Italy; a matrix with zircon from Minsk; sphalerite with calcite; microcline felspar; barite from Nchanga, Zambia; sphalerite from Nenthead; two felspar pyromorphite; and a lava bomb from Vesuvius, Italy. 829 grams total, 32-76 mm
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Natural History - Historic Galena with Quartz Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £5
The white quartz with metallic black galena. 168 grams, 65 mm
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
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