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LOT 2577
Natural History - Group of Polished Copal with Insects
CARBONIFEROUS PERIOD, CIRCA 3 MILLION YEARS B.P.
1 1/8 - 2 3/8 in. (12 grams total, 28-61 mm).
Comprising four pieces, each with a number of insect inclusions. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
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Natural History - Historic 'Argentina' Rhodochrosite on Quartz Crystal Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Displaying rose-pink and white colours, collection number 380. 39 grams, 52 mm
Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
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 - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Comprising: ferruginous quartz from Cornwall, England, collection number 438, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label; a cut and polished agate geode slice from Brazil, collection number 351; apophyllite from Poona, Bombay, India, collection number 176; brochantite on quartz from Bingham, New Mexico, USA, collection number 614, with an old Simon Harrison Minerals label; kyanite from Graves Mountain, Georgia, USA, collection number 616; wulfenite with mimetite from San Francisco Mine, Sonora, Mexico, collection number 488; a cut and polished agate slice from Brazil, collection number 364; a cut section of agate geode, collection number 32; eight specimens of brown crystal. 358 grams total, 24-74 mm
Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Seven specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card.