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LOT 2527
Natural History - Large Crinoid Fossil Display Plate
SILURIAN PERIOD, 443-416 MILLION YEARS B.P.
13 3/4 in. (5.6 kg, 35 cm).
Presenting a large Scyphocrinus elegans crinoid, in an amorphous sheet matrix. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Morocco, North Africa.
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Natural History - Historic Collection of Mineral Specimens
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising: galena from England, collection number 234; fluorite from Blackdene, Durham, collection number 439; hematite, collection number 154; pyrite on galena from Zacatecas, Mexico, collection number 424; hematite from England, collection number 115; galena on chalcopyrite from Chilean Andes, South America, collection number 278; dolomite from Arkansas, USA, collection number 354; specular hematite with quartz from Brazil, collection number 110; chalcopyrite from New Mexico, USA, collection number 377. 549 grams total, 48-99 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. All specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
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Natural History - Boxed Pyrite 'Fool's Gold' Crystal Display Group [6]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising six specimens composed of small, well-formed crystals. 1.41 kg total, 58-80 mm
From Peru. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's). -
Natural History - Mixed Fossil Collection
Devonian-Late Pleistocene Period, 395 million-200,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising: a Pseudopecten bivalve; two Littorina littorea gastropods from Dorset; two Goniatite sp. ammonites; four polished Orthoceras sp. specimens; a Beudanticeras sp. ammonite from Kent; a rostral spine; and other fossils specimens. 1.3 kg total, 23-92 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
