Natural History - Large Cut and Polished Fossil Orthoceras

DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 385-359 MILLION YEARS B.P.

5 3/4 in. (610 grams total, 14.5 cm each).

The specimen showing the internal chambers and a small internal cavity with a quartz crystal. [2, No Reserve]

Provenance

From the Atlas Mountains, Morocco.
From an old Bristol, UK, collection.

CONDITION

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LOT 1830