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LOT 2338
Two Large Cut and Polished Agate Geode Slices
6 3/8 - 6 3/4 in. (478 grams total, 16.1-17 cm).
Two highly polished translucent slices with brown and grey banding with quartz crystal formation inside, one resembling a 'smiley face'. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Brazil.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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Group of Three [3] Large Pale Amethyst and Quartz Crystal Sections
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising three geode sections, two with pale purple amethyst crystals and one with almost colourless quartz crystals. 1.63 kg total, 9.1-17.6 cm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
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Group of Ten [10] Meteorite Crater Tektite Specimens
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Comprising ten irregular, rounded pieces with typical surface indentations. 45 grams total, 16-33 mm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
Tektites are lumps of black or dark grey natural glass produced from melted crustal rocks caused by large hypervelocity meteorite impacts on sediments. -
Large Woolly Rhinocerous Leg Bone
Pleistocene Epoch, Devensian Age, circa 110,000-12,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
A near-complete tibia of Coelodonta antiquitatis. 1.62 kg, 36 cm
From the North Sea, UK. 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.
Woolly rhinoceros is an extinct species of large rhinoceros that inhabited northern Eurasia and was adapted to living in the extreme cold weather of the steppe.
