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LOT 2523
Natural History - Historic 'Naca, Mexico' Selenite Crystal Specimen
2 3/4 in. (139 grams, 71 mm).
Displaying large tabular crystals with fine examples if swallow-tail contact twins, collection number 533; purchased for £25.00 from the Natural History Museum Shop, in 1983. [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 2523
Natural History - Historic 'Naca, Mexico' Selenite Crystal Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
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Natural History - Fossil Bird Bone Group
Pleistocene Age, circa 2 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising two hollow wading bird bones. 13 grams total, 77-90 mm
From Rancho La Brea Formation, Maricopa Co., California, USA. Acquired 1950s-1960s. From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection. -
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising: gypsum, no collection number; garnet schist, collection number 191; red granite, collection number 399; Blue John from Derbyshire, England, collection number 484, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label; a cut and polished slice of septarian nodule from USA, collection number 117; limestone from Skiathos Island, Greece, collection number 510; kermesite with stibnite from Pezinok, Czechoslovakia, collection number 601; mica, collection number 366; pyrite and chlorite in matrix slate from Devon, England, collection number 46. 1.28 kg total, 5.1-12.1 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. Five specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
Natural History - Large Fossil Diplomystus Fish Plate
Eocene Period, 58-36 million years B.P.Estimate: £500 - 700 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £225
Diplomystus sp. fossil fish on a matrix slab showing good detail to the spine and ribs. 9.4 kg, 46 x 61.5 cm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
