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LOT 2263
Natural History - Ostrich Egg Collection
20TH CENTURY A.D.
5 3/4 - 6 1/8 in. (969 grams total, 14.5-15.5 cm).
Comprising four glossy cream-coloured eggs with drilled holes to the base. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired from various sources within the UK.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.
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Natural History - Polished Fossil Orthoceras Column
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
The four polished 'bullets' showing variously sized Orthoceras sp. specimens. 1.56 grams, 19.8 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Natural History - Polished Seymchan Meteorite Slab
Found June 1967 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
A highly polished rectangular slice of the Seymchan meteorite with an exceptional number of transparent olivine inclusions, repaired. 62.4 grams, 12 cm
From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s.
The main mass of 272.3 kilograms was found during a survey in June 1967 by geologist F. A. Mednikov. The mass was a triangular-shaped thumb printed meteorite lying among the stones of the brook bed. A second specimen of 51 kilograms was found with a mine detector at a distance of 20 meters from the first in October 1967 by I. H. Markov. During a new expedition in 2004, Dmitri Kachalin recovered about 50 kilograms of new material. Remarkably, about 20% of the new specimens were found to contain olivine crystals, and so revealed the silicate nature of the meteorite. The pallasitic structure was not previously discovered during studies on small metal-only sections of the original mass. The distortion of the Widmanstatten patterns is interpreted as shearing of the superheated meteorite as it broke up in the Earth's atmosphere. -
Natural History - Plesiosaurus 'Marine Dinosaur' Fossil Vertebra
Jurassic Period, circa 199-145 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Comprising the main body of the vertebra. 238 grams, 85 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
