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LOT 2404
Natural History - Large Blue Agate Crystal Cut and Polished Slice
9 in. (663 grams, 23 cm).
In enhanced dark blue colour, the internal cavity with quartz crystals. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
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LOT 2404
Natural History - Large Blue Agate Crystal Cut and Polished Slice
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
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Natural History - Shell and Fossil Group
Upper Devonian Period, circa 419-358 million years B.P.-20th century A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Including a Phacops rana trilobite and other types. 890 grams total, 5.1-18 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. -
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Natural History - Fire Opal on Matrix Specimen Group [100]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
The matrices containing a number of dark orange examples. 564 grams total, 20-40 mm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's). -
Natural History - Fossil Deltadromeus Theropod Dinosaur Vertebra
Cretaceous Period, circa 90 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
A vertebra with neural arch from the dinosaur Deltadromeus agilis. 247 grams, 87 mm
From the Kem-Kem Basin, Morocco, North Africa. From an old German paleontological collection.
Deltadromeus meaning 'delta runner' has extraordinarily delicate and long limbs making it one of the fastest dinosaurs to have existed. This meat-eating dinosaur is an early off-shoot of the theropod line on northern continents that gave rise to Tyrannosaurus and the raptor Deinonychus.
