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LOT 2852
Polished Mixed Jasper Mineral Specimen Group [51]
3/4 - 1 5/8 in. (457 grams total, 19-42 mm).
A mixed group of red and leopard's skin jasper pebbles. [51, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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Cut and Polished Agate Geode Slice Collection [9]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising ten polished slices displaying mainly brown, white and grey banding. 1.05 kg total, 11.6-12.8 cm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Fossil Tooth with Root
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
A large Mosasaur prognathodon sp. tooth with some root, fragment of a second tooth beneath the root. 125 grams, 10.4 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Meteoritic Tektite Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
A tongue-shaped specimen with dimpled surface. 8.44 grams, 44 mm
From Indo-China. Acquired from Friars Square market, Aylesbury, UK, October 2012. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
Tektites are lumps of black or dark grey natural glass produced from melted crustal rocks that are caused by large hypervelocity meteorite impacts on sediments.