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LOT 2545
Natural History - Mixed Crystal Specimen Display Group
1 1/4 - 2 in. (420 grams total, 33-50 mm).
Comprising: specularite; mini geode halves; citrine porcupine; pyrite; pink and green fluorite specimens; each held in a white card collector's tray with accompanying label. [7, No Reserve]
ProvenanceMineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
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LOT 2545
Natural History - Mixed Crystal Specimen Display Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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Natural History - Mastodon Fossil Tusk Carving
Pliocene Period, 5.2-2.5 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £130
Featuring a later carved stylised face in relief. 121 grams, 83 mm
Ex private collection of a Shropshire, UK, gentleman, 1990s. -
Natural History - Fossil Mosasaur Tooth with Root
Cretaceous Period, 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Set on a sandstone matrix; tooth repaired. 250 grams, 95 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Cut Fossil Ammonite Halves
Middle Cretaceous Period, 150 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Polished to reveal the distinctive structure of the Cleoniceras sp. chambers, some iridescence; chip to edge of one half. 256 grams total, 10-10.3 cm
From Madagascar. Collected between 1930 and 1960. From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill.