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LOT 2574
Natural History - Historic 'Mexico' Adamite Crystal Specimen
2 in. (57.8 grams, 53 mm).
With pale greenish yellow and white crystals, collection number 593. [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.
Accompanied by an original historic index file card.
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LOT 2574
Natural History - Historic 'Mexico' Adamite Crystal Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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Natural History - Cut and Polished Mini Crystal Geode Group [100]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Each showing an internal crystal filled cavity. 662 grams total, 25-40 mm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's). -
Natural History - Large Composite Fossil Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Teeth Assemblage
Cretaceous Period, 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
An assemblage of Mosasaur prognathodon teeth, attached to a jaw-shaped matrix for display; all set in a composite matrix. 6.59 kg, 37 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
The Mosasaur is an extinct, large marine reptile dinosaur with a snake-like body, long snout and paddle-like limbs. found worldwide, they competed with other well-known sea predators of the Late Cretaceous, such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, for food, existing primarily on a diet of ammonoids, cuttlefish and fish. -
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Comprising: cherry-red rhodonite on galena from Broken Hill, New South Wales, Australia, collection number 559, with an old ISIS Minerals label; emerald-green dioptase from Harlequin Mine, Pinal County, Arizona, USA, collection number 152; apple-green pyromorphite from Ussel, Correze, France, collection number 552; orange stilbite, collection number 92; rubellite from USA , collection number 129; gypsum from Oxfordshire, England, collection number 15; sphalerite from Brazil, collection number 93; limonite from England, collection number 537; corundum from Madagascar, collection number 8. 123 grams total, 14-39 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. Each specimen accompanied by an original historic index file card.