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LOT 2600
Natural History - Polished Green Tourmaline Group
1/4 - 1/2 in. (99 grams total, 5-13 mm).
Comprising a quantity of over approximately 500 carats of tumble-polished green tourmaline crystals. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
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Natural History - Early Human Skull Replica
Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Australopithecus Africanus cranium skull with hand-painted finish. 1.19 kg, 20.1 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Australopithecus africanus is an extinct South African species of australopithecine which lived circa 3.3-2.1 million years ago in the Late Pliocene to Early Pleistocene. Australopithecus, means ‘southern ape’. It is based on ‘australo’, a Latin word meaning ‘southern’ and ‘pithecus’, a Greek word meaning ‘ape’. The females grew to about 110 centimetres in height and males were slightly taller at about 135 centimetres. -
Natural History - Polished Fossil Orthoceras Coaster Set
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Comprising six coasters on a stand carved from fossiliferous stone showing orthoceras specimens. 1.16 kg total, 11.4 cm wide
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Historic 'Copiapo, Chile' Atacamite on Chrysocolla Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Consisting of a mass of prismatic atacamite on a bed of botryoidal chrysocolla, collection number 491, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label. 114 grams, 81 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. Accompanied by an original historic index file card.
