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LOT 2258
Natural History - Grade A Cut and Polished Agate Slice Collection with 'Eyes' [4]
4 1/2 - 4 5/8 in. (466 grams total, 11.5- 11.8 cm).
Comprising three examples with mainly orange and grey banding, one with grey and light brown banding; each example with a number of attractive eye-shaped formations. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
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LOT 2258
Natural History - Grade A Cut and Polished Agate Slice Collection with 'Eyes' [4]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
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Natural History - Fly in Baltic Amber
Oligocene Period, circa 50-55 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Polished to highlight the Diptera sp. fly inclusion. 2.1 grams, 25 mm
From Primorskoje mine, Yantarnyi, Kaliningrad. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. Accompanied by an illustrated identification card. -
Natural History - Fossil Deltadromeus Theropod Dinosaur Vertebra
Cretaceous Period, circa 90 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
A vertebra with neural arch from the dinosaur Deltadromeus agilis. 247 grams, 87 mm
From the Kem-Kem Basin, Morocco, North Africa. From an old German paleontological collection.
Deltadromeus meaning 'delta runner' has extraordinarily delicate and long limbs making it one of the fastest dinosaurs to have existed. This meat-eating dinosaur is an early off-shoot of the theropod line on northern continents that gave rise to Tyrannosaurus and the raptor Deinonychus. -
Natural History - Polished Fossil Goniatite Group
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising two polished, dome-shaped masses, each with a central Goniatite sp. specimen. 858 grams total, 13.9 cm
From the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, North Africa. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
