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LOT 2254
Natural History - Historic Mixed Fossil Collection
1 3/8 - 3 3/4 in. (1.12 kg total, 34-95 mm).
A mixed group comprising: fossil shells on a matrix from England; a partial fish vertebra from England; a large carnelian specimen from Brazil; a matrix with Myophorella clavellata and a Thracia depressa from England; a bivalve from England; a scallop from England; a pyritized ammonite from Peterborough, England; a bivalve; Nummulites elegans specimens in an old specimen box with collection no.E104. [11, No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired from various sources within the UK.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.
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Natural History - Fossil Goniatite Lidded Trinket Box
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Cut from a fossiliferous matrix with a larger Goniatite sp. ammonite set on the lid. 538 grams, 92 x 92 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Natural History - British Woolly Mammoth Fossil Tusk Section Group
Pleistocene Period, circa 40,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Mammuthus primigenius tusk fragments. 259 grams total, 4.7-14 cm
Found North Sea, UK. Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985. -
Natural History - Scarce Fossil Sapindopsis Plant on Matrix
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-66 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Comprising two joined leaves from an extinct genus Sapindopsis, related to modern Platanaceae family. 745 grams, 19.2 cm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.