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LOT 1903
Natural History - Mixed Cut and Polished Agate Slice Collection [13]
3 3/8 - 5 3/4 in. (810 grams total, 8.5-14.7 cm).
With brown, white, orange, grey and blue banding; one with enhanced colour. [13, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Brazil.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
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LOT 1903
Natural History - Mixed Cut and Polished Agate Slice Collection [13]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
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Natural History - Insect in Baltic Amber
Oligocene Age, 55-50 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
The polished piece with a single insect inclusion; supplied with an illustrated information card. 1.32 grams, 24 mm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Deltadromeus Dinosaur Fossil Bone Group
Cretaceous Period, circa 90 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
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. -
Natural History - Polished Fossil Ammonoid
Early Permian Period, circa 280-225 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Metalegoceras sundiacum with polished surfaces. 832 grams, 11 cm
From Maubisse Formation, Timor, Indonesia. From an old Oxfordshire, UK, fossil and mineral collection.