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LOT 2737
Natural History - Fossil Seed Fern Pair Group
MIDDLE PENNSYLVANIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 300 MILLION YEARS B.P.
2 1/8 - 2 5/8 in. (175 grams total, 54-66 mm).
Comprising two Pecopteris sp. fossil seed fern pairs. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the Mazon Creek Fossil Beds, Braidwood, Illinois, USA.
Collected 1930-1960.
From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.
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Natural History - Polished Fossil Goniatite Book Ends
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
A pair of bookends formed from fossiliferous stone showing multiple goniatite and orthoceras fossils, two large Goniatite sp. fossils set to the frontal face. 3.58 kg total, 16.2 cm each
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Mixed Mineral Specimen Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising: quartz mica schist from Skiathos Island, Greece, collection number 515; orthoclase from Portugal, collection number 20; aurichalcite from Mexico, collection number 451; torbernite from Katanga, Congo, collection number 478; kermesite on stibnite from Romania, collection number 436; and four larger mineral samples. 3.5 kg total, 2-18 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. Five specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising: granite with high mica content from the A40 construction works, Middlesex, collection number 500; unakite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 229; quartz from Cornwall, England, collection number 295; pyrite, collection number 592; granite, collection number 540; gneiss veins in quartz with two cut and polished faces, collection number 404; granite from the A40 construction works, Middlesex, England, collection number 506; grit from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 224; mica, collection number 366. 1.8 kg total, 4.6-20 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. Five specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.