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LOT 2447
Polished Fossil Orthoceras Display Stand
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 417-354 MILLION YEARS B.P.
10 in. (1.93 kg, 25.5 cm).
Freestanding display composed of five polished 'torpedos' on a textured matrix, carved from fossiliferous stone and showing multiple Orthoceras sp. specimens. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
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