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LOT 2757
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
5/8 - 2 5/8 in. (152 grams total, 16-67 mm).
Comprising: a cut and polished malachite nodule half from Katanga, Zaire, collection number 557; rhodochrosite, collection number 305; sodalite from Dumfries and Galloway, collection number 23; a cut and polished agate geode half, collection number 419; quartz on muscovite from Brazil, collection number 63; wolframite from Cornwall, England, collection number 161; baryte from Cumbria, England, collection number 13; quartz on bornite from Messini Mine, North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 199; chalcopyrite on quartz from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 304. [9, 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.
Each specimen accompanied by an original historic index file card.
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Natural History - Historic 'India' Prehnite Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Displaying natural crystal formation, very rare in this form, collection number 372, with an old James Walker label and invoice dated 1979. 167 grams, 13.6 cm
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 - Knightia Fossil Fish Plate
Eocene Period, circa 56-33 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
A roughly oval matrix with a Knightia alta fossil fish. 70 grams, 10.5 cm
Acquired on the UK art market. Property of a Essex, UK, collector.
In southwest Wyoming (and parts of Colorado and Utah) in the Green River Formation are found some of the world's most outstanding specimens of fossil fish. The Green River system was composed of three lakes: Lake Ulinta, Lake Gosiute and Fossil Lake. These Eocene lakes lay in a series of intermountain basins formed by geological events that uplifted the Rocky Mountains during the early Tertiary time. The climate was much different from the desert-like climate of this area today. Both the fauna (crocodiles, alligators, boa constrictors and some subtropical fish families) and the flora (such as large palm trees) indicate a climate much like that found along the Gulf Coast today. Large amounts of ash found in the sediments indicate that volcanoes were particularly active at this time. -
Natural History - Extremely Large Polished Fossil Orthoceras Display
Devonian Period, 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £234
A magnificent display tower of several polished Orthoceras sp. specimens on a textured background; repaired. 43.4 kg, 1.28 m
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
