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LOT 2285
Polished Fossil Orthoceras Bookend Pair
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 417-354 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 3/4 in. (1.97 kg total, 12 cm high each).
A pair of bookends formed from fossiliferous stone showing sections of goniatite and orthoceras fossils, two large Orthoceras sp. fossils set to the frontal face. [2, No Reserve]
Provenance
From Atlas Mountains, Morocco, North Africa.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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