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LOT 2819
Polished Fossil Goniatite Bowl
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 417-354 MILLION YEARS B.P.
7 in. (502 grams, 17.6 cm).
An oval bowl carved from fossiliferous stone, set with a larger Goniatite sp. specimen. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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