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LOT 2179
Natural History - Purple Agate Cut and Polished Geode Half Group [6]
2 1/4 - 2 3/4 in. (1.09 kg total, 58-69 mm).
Comprising six examples in enhanced purple colour. [6, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
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LOT 2179
Natural History - Purple Agate Cut and Polished Geode Half Group [6]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
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Natural History - Fossil Hamatolenus Trilobite
Cambrian Period, circa 500 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
On a matrix, possibly Hamatolenus vincenti. 407 grams, 92 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Insect in Polished Baltic Amber
Oligocene Period, circa 45 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Polished to highlight the fly inclusion. 1 grams, 22 mm
Property of the vendor's father, thence by descent. From the private collection of a New York, USA gentleman. -
Natural History - Fossil Claudiosaurus Skeleton
Late Permian-early Triassic Period, circa 252-250 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,430
On a rounded matrix. 8.85 kg, 32.5 cm
From Madagascar. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Claudiosaurus is an extinct genus of diapsid reptiles from the Late Permian Sakamena Formation of the Morondava Basin, Madagascar. It is theorised that this was a semi-aquatic, lizard-like dinosaur.