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LOT 1808
Natural History - Historic Copper Plated on Iron Rail Mineral Specimen
3 3/8 in. (34 grams total, 84 mm).
Comprising small crystals on a host. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Nchanga, Zimbabwe.
Collected in person in 1964.
From the private mineral collection of Stephen Atkinson, Harpenden, UK.
Accompanied by a copy of a letter from the vendor giving details of him collecting these minerals throughout his life.
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LOT 1808
Natural History - Historic Copper Plated on Iron Rail Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
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Natural History - Fossil Dicranurus Monstrosus Trilobite
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Showing the pair of horn-like spines behind the glabellum, specific for Dicranurus monstrosus odontopleurid trilobites. 599 grams, 15.5 cm
From Morocco, North Africa. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
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Natural History - Purple and Blue Triangular Fluorite Specimen Group [50]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £35
Comprising variously sized translucent specimens in light blue to dark purple colour. 897 grams total, 33-39 mm
From China. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's). -
Natural History - Deltadromeus Dinosaur Fossil Bone Group
Cretaceous Period, circa 90 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising a clavicle bone section and a front leg bone section from Deltadromeus agilis. 295 grams total, 86-90 mm
From Kem-Kem Basin, Morocco. From an old German paleontological collection.
Deltadromeus had extraordinarily delicate and long limbs making it one of the fastest dinosaurs to have existed. This meat-eating dinosaur was an early off-shoot of the theropod line on northern continents that gave rise to Tyrannosaurus and the raptor Deinonychus.
