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LOT 2277
Polished Mineral Specimen Egg Collection
2 3/8 - 3 in. (705 grams total, 62-78 mm).
Comprising: an egg-shaped specimen in agate, marble and blue speckled stone; accompanied by an egg-shaped lidded container. [5, No Reserve]
ProvenanceBurwell collection, Cambridgeshire, UK.
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Very Large Cut and Polished Agatized Fossil Tree Trunk Slice
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Showing bark detail on the edges, the cut faces showing attractive agatized patterns. 1.54 kg, 30.7 cm
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Woolly Rhinoceros Fossil Vertebra
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With neural arch, from the woolly rhinoceros Coelodonta antiquitatis. 305 grams, 11.8 cm
Fine condition.
From Brown Bank, Dogger beds, Lowestoft, Suffolk, UK. Collected between 1930 and 1960. From the collection of the palaeontologist R Gledhill. -
Bactrian Style Rock Crystal Bead Necklace String
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