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LOT 1961
Natural History - Polished Fossil Goniatite Book Ends
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 417-354 MILLION YEARS B.P.
6 in. (3.4 kg total, 15.3 cm high each).
Cut and polished from a single fossiliferous block and each side set with a large Goniatite sp. specimen. [2, No Reserve]
Provenance
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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