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LOT 2475
Natural History - Polished Fossil Ammonite Display
JURASSIC PERIOD, 199-145 MILLION YEARS B.P.
8 5/8 in. (4.1 kg, 22 cm high).
Mounted on a matrix style display base; some restoration.
ProvenanceFrom Madagascar.
Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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LOT 2475
Natural History - Polished Fossil Ammonite Display
Estimate £120 - 170€140 - 200 (for guidance only)$160 - 230 (for guidance only)
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Natural History - Chinese Nantan Meteorite
Fell 1516 A.D., found 1958 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Nickel iron meteorite (1AB), cleaned. 3.5 grams, 31 mm
Found Nantan, Nandan County, Guangzi Region, China. Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher. Accompanied by a certificate of authenticity from Silver Moon Crystals, Southport, UK.
The Nantan meteorite fell in 1516, as recorded in ancient Chinese texts; the fall exploded during descent which resulted in a shower of many individual iron meteorites over an area some 28km x 8km in Nantan County, Guangxi, China. Classified as an iron meteorite; 111CD Course Octohedrite, the composition is approximately 92% iron, 6% nickel and contains more than ten other minerals including kamacite, taenite, dominate, plessite, schreibersite, triolite, graphite and others. In 2000, pieces of the Nantan meteorite were incorporated into an art installation for The Bull Ring Shopping Centre in Birmingham, England. Today, a plaque commemorates the occasion. -
Natural History - Polished Orthoceras Tower Display
Devonian Period, 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Displaying several polished specimens on a freestanding matrix. 6.5 kg, 57.5 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Deltadromeus Dinosaur Fossil Bone Section
Cretaceous Period, 90 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
From the front leg of Deltadromeus agilis on a matrix; repaired. 1.1 kg, 22.5 cm long
From the Kem-Kem Basin, Morocco, North Africa. 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.
