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LOT 2612
Natural History - Historic Fossil Collection
DEVONIAN-EOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 419-33 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3/8 - 2 1/2 in. (632 grams total, 10-65 mm).
Comprising: two echinoidea, matrix with crinoids, a petrified whale bone, ammonite, a large ammonite fragment, two brachiopods, five ammonite fragments, and a seashell; most with old handwritten labels. [14, No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970.
From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent.
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Natural History - Historic 'Australia' Opal Specimen Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Comprising six small specimens displaying blue and green colours, collection number 218. 6.01 grams total, 13-21 mm
Ex Miss Rawlinson in 1908. 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 - Fossil Ammonite Group in Matrix
Lower Jurassic Period, circa 200 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Group of Promicroceras ammonite fossils in a sedimentary matrix. 144 grams total, 97 mm
From Black Ven, Lyme Regis, Dorset, UK. Ex old British palaeological collection. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Diogenite NWA 4664 Meteorite Slice
Found 2006 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
A cut slice of diogenite, an igneous rock rich in the magnesium- and iron-rich silicate orthopyroxene, recorded as: Northwest Africa 4664; displayed in a Swiss membrane box, inked note 'NWA 4664' to one side. 10.2 grams, 53 mm (58.6 grams total, 99 x 75 mm including case)
From Algeria. Ex Mile High Meteorites, U.S.A. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection. Accompanied by an original identification card.
Vesta is the second largest asteroid and the only large one covered with basalt; the fine-grained volcanic rock makes up the dark areas of the Moon and the huge shield volcanoes on Mars. Three groups of achondrites (igneous meteorites) are widely thought to have come from Vesta; these are the HED meteorites: Howardites, Eucrites and Diogenites.
