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LOT 1816
Natural History - Large 'Winking Smiley Face' Cut and Polished Agate Display
8 in. (1.48 kg, 20 cm).
A cut and polished agate slice displaying crystals to the exposed inner surfaces; a naturally-occurring smiling face formed in the polished surface composed of two large circular eyes and a crescent-shaped mouth. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceMineral Imports, London, UK.
Ex Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
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LOT 1816
Natural History - Large 'Winking Smiley Face' Cut and Polished Agate Display
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
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Natural History - Fossil Woolly Mammoth Bone
Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
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Ex Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Cut and Polished Fossil Ammonite
Jurassic Period, 199-145 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
A pair of cut and polished fossil ammonite halves, each displaying the gas chambers; possibly Cleoniceras sp. 405 grams total, 11.9 cm wide each
From Madagascar. Collected between 1930 and 1960. From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill. -
Natural History - Cut and Polished Agate Crystal Geode Pair
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
A matching pair of agate geode halves, with polishing to the cut faces and crystals to the exposed inner surfaces. 760 grams total, 92 mm each
Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
