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LOT 2688
Natural History - Large Historic 'England' Dog Tooth Calcite Crystal Specimen
6 in. (2.32 kg, 15.5 cm).
A cut section displaying orange browns, pale brown and brownish white colours, collection number 53. [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 2688
Natural History - Large Historic 'England' Dog Tooth Calcite Crystal Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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Natural History - Sea Fossil Collection
Silurian-Eocene Period, circa 420-50 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising: Athleta luctator shell from Barton Beds, Hampshire, UK, ex professor Gordon Walkden collection, UK; Cretaceous Micraster species sea urchin from St. Margaret's Bay, near Dover, Kent, UK; Silurian fossil seabed section with brachiopods, crinoid stems, and remains of other sea creatures from Wenlock limestone, Dudley, East Midlands, and from an old British collection. 282 grams total, 5.5-10.8 cm
From Dudley, West Midlands, UK. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection. Accompanied by a copy of a previous illustrated catalogue page for the shell. -
Natural History - Historic 'Sierra Madre, Mexico' Rhyolite Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £247
Displaying attractive brown banding, probably due to wind-weathering, collection number 363. 315 grams, 10.5 cm high
Acquired 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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Natural History - Deltadromeus Dinosaur Fossil Bone Group
Cretaceous Period, circa 90 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising a clavicle bone section and a front leg bone section from Deltadromeus agilis. 295 grams total, 86-90 mm
From Kem-Kem Basin, Morocco. From an old German paleontological collection.
Deltadromeus had extraordinarily delicate and long limbs making it one of the fastest dinosaurs to have existed. This meat-eating dinosaur was an early off-shoot of the theropod line on northern continents that gave rise to Tyrannosaurus and the raptor Deinonychus.
