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LOT 2421
Natural History - Shell and Fossil Group
UPPER DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 419-358 MILLION YEARS B.P.-20TH CENTURY A.D.
2 - 7 1/8 in. (890 grams total, 5.1-18 cm).
Including a Phacops rana trilobite and other types. [9, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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.
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Natural History - Insect in Polished Baltic Amber
Oligocene Period, circa 45 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
Polished to highlight the insect inclusion. 0.43 grams, 18 mm
Property of the vendor's father, thence by descent. From the private collection of a New York, USA gentleman. -
Natural History - Fossil Gibbus Trilobite
Upper Devonian Period, 385-359 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Cheirurus (Crotalocephalina) trilobite Crotalocephalus gibbus fossil on a matrix. 175 grams, 72 mm
From Hamar Laghdad Formation, Pragian, (Alnif), Morocco, North Africa. From an old Oxfordshire, UK, fossil and mineral collection. -
Natural History - Polished Fossil Orthoceras Group
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.PSold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising five polished Orthoceras sp. specimens. 80 grams total, 44-49 mm
From the Atlas Mountains of Morocco, North Africa. From a Norfolk, UK, collection.
