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LOT 2370
Natural History - Large Polished Baltic Amber with Insect Inclusions
OLIGOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 45 MILLION YEARS B.P.
1 5/8 in. (6.21 grams, 40 mm).
Polished to highlight the various inclusions. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of the vendor's father, thence by descent.
From the private collection of a New York, USA gentleman.
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LOT 2370
Natural History - Large Polished Baltic Amber with Insect Inclusions
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
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Natural History - Boxed Polished Amethyst Crystal Obelisk Group [3]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Each freestanding and with bevelled edges. 84 grams total, 60-70 mm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's). -
Natural History - Polished Fossil Goniatite Group
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.PSold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising three polished, dome-shaped masses, each with a central Goniatite sp. specimen. 368 grams total, 70-75 mm
From the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, North Africa. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Fossil Claudiosaurus Skeleton
Late Permian-early Triassic Period, circa 252-250 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,430
On a rounded matrix. 8.85 kg, 32.5 cm
From Madagascar. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Claudiosaurus is an extinct genus of diapsid reptiles from the Late Permian Sakamena Formation of the Morondava Basin, Madagascar. It is theorised that this was a semi-aquatic, lizard-like dinosaur.
