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LOT 2519
Natural History - Polished Fossil Goniatite Trinket Box
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 417-354 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 1/2 x 3 5/8 in. (587 grams, 90 x 91 mm).
A rectangular lidded box carved from fossiliferous stone, the lid set with a large Goniatite sp. specimen. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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Natural History - Flexicalymene Fossil Trilobite Group
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Three Flexicalymene sp. trilobites from nodules. 351 grams total, 71-86 mm
From Morocco, North Africa. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising: a cut and polished malachite nodule half from Katanga, Zaire, collection number 557; rhodochrosite, collection number 305; sodalite from Dumfries and Galloway, collection number 23; a cut and polished agate geode half, collection number 419; quartz on muscovite from Brazil, collection number 63; wolframite from Cornwall, England, collection number 161; baryte from Cumbria, England, collection number 13; quartz on bornite from Messini Mine, North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 199; chalcopyrite on quartz from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 304. 152 grams total, 16-67 mm
Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Each specimen accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
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Natural History - Fossil Trilobite Group
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising three trilobites, two Morocops (Barrandeops) sp. trilobites and one Hollardops mesacristata on a matrix. 279 grams total, 45-73 mm
From the Atlas Mountains, Hamar Laghdad Formation, Pragian, (Alnif), Morocco. From an old Oxford, UK, paleontological collection.
