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LOT 3223
Turquoise 'Cookie Monster' Agate Slice
3 in. (62 grams, 74 mm).
Polished and dyed slice with a fanciful image at the centre, viewable from both sides. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Brazil.
Property of a Bristol, UK, gentleman collector.
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LOT 3223
Turquoise 'Cookie Monster' Agate Slice
Estimate £40 - 60€46 - 70 (for guidance only)$54 - 81 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Polished Baltic Amber with Insect and Other Inclusions
Oligocene Period, circa 45 million years B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Translucent orange amber with an insect and other inclusions. 1.93 grams, 26 mm
From a UK collection formed in the 1980s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. -
Fossil Otodus Extinct Shark Tooth Display
Eocene Epoch, circa 53-33 million years B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Large Otodus obliquus tooth set on a tongue-shaped matrix. 876 grams, 11.1 cm
Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Fossil Ichthyosaur Skull and Partial Skeleton
Triassic Period, circa 246-237 million years B.P.Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £500
Featuring the top of the skull with an exposed left eye socket and part of the lower jaw also visible, a number of the cervical vertebrae present, as well as ribs and part of the right scapula. 5.75 kg, 36 cm
From the Guanling Biota formation, China. Previously with Shishang Corporation, Taiwan. From a West London gentleman collector; acquired from a professional fossil company in Taiwan.
Originally, ichthyosaur fossils were misidentified as ‘Saurian’, being either lizards or forms of crocodile. The term 'Ichthyosaur' was first used in 1817 by the German naturalist Karl Dietrich Eberhard Konig, and he did not publish the name until 1825. By the 1830s, the name Ichthyosaur was widely used.
