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LOT 1915
Natural History - Polished Aventurine Quartz Crystal Tree on Amethyst Crystal Base
7 in. (563 grams, 18 cm).
The flexible metal branches tipped with polished aventurine pebbles; the matrix with clusters of purple amethyst crystals. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
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LOT 1915
Natural History - Polished Aventurine Quartz Crystal Tree on Amethyst Crystal Base
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
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Natural History - Flexicalymene Fossil Trilobite Nodule
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
The nodule opened to reveal the positive and negative of the fossilised trilobite. 115 grams total, 52 mm each
From Morocco, North Africa. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - British Bison Bone Group
Pleistocene Period, circa 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Comprising sections of ribs, leg and other bones from Bison priscus. 2.45 kg total, 4.7-37 cm
From Oxfordshire, UK. From a Norfolk, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Mastodon Tusk Carving
Pliocene Period, circa 5.2-2.5 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £286
With a later carving of a face with exaggerated details. 48 grams, 10 cm
From Island of Java. Acquired 1950s-1960s. From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection.
