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LOT 1835
Natural History - Quartz Crystal Specimen Group [100]
1 1/8 - 1 1/2 in. (911 grams total, 28-39 mm).
Comprising a large quantity of translucent crystal points. [100, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Brazil.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's).
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Natural History - Dyed Agate on Stand
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
The teardrop-shaped body cut and polished to reveal the internal quartz filled cavity; in enhanced blue colour. 311 grams total, 13.5 cm high
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Deltadromeus Dinosaur Fossil Bone Group
Cretaceous Period, circa 90 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising a clavicle bone section and a front leg bone section from Deltadromeus agilis. 295 grams total, 86-90 mm
From Kem-Kem Basin, Morocco. 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. -
Natural History - Amber with Insect Inclusion
Oligocene Period, circa 45 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Polished teardrop-shaped specimen with insect inclusion. 2.67 grams, 30 mm
From a North American collection. Property of an East Sussex, UK, gentleman.