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LOT 2443
Polished Baltic Amber with Insect
OLIGOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 45 MILLION YEARS B.P.
7/8 in. (1.11 grams, 22 mm).
Polished, transparent specimen with an insect inclusion. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Primorskoje Mine, Kaliningrad, Russia.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
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Mixed Crystal and Mineral Specimen Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising: fire opal from Lomo Deltoro Mine, Zimapan, Zimapan Municipality, Hidalgo, Mexico; quartz from Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall; stilbite from the Storr, Portree, Trotternish, Isle of Skye, Scotland; baryte from Silverband Mine, Dun Fell, Milburn, Cumbria; quartz from Rostowrack China Clay pit, Cornwall; chalcopyrite and pyrite from Mount Wellington Mine, Twelveheads, Cornwall; hedenbergite from Lunner, Akershus, Norway; dolomite from Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa, USA; fluorite from Heights Mine, Westgate, Durham; quartz from Dolcoath Mine, camborne, Cornwall. 1.1 kg total, 3.5-10.4 cm
From the property of a Cornwall, UK, gentleman. -
Polished Baltic Amber with Insect
Oligocene Period, circa 45 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £143
Polished, transparent specimen with an insect inclusion. 1.11 grams, 22 mm
From Primorskoje Mine, Kaliningrad, Russia. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
Fossil Sapindopsis Plant Leaf
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-66 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Comprising three joined leaves from an extinct genus Sapindopsis, related the to modern Platanaceae family. 521 grams, 20.5 x 14.6 cm
From Lebanon. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
