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Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 660		Duckbill Dinosaur Partial Mandible With 14 Teeth. Edmontosaurus annectens was a very large herbivore that was a favorite food choice for T-Rex. It is known as a Duckbill dinosaur because of its wide toothless beak. Behind the beak were rows of hundreds of replaceable teeth in its back jaw and Maxilla. This seven inch long section of the Maxilla has 14 original teeth with four partial teeth with replacement teeth forming beneath the exposed teeth. The excellent quality bone is a lovely brown color and no restoration. It is 65-67 million years old and was found on a private ranch in the Lance Creek Formation of Niobrara county Wyoming. Estimated Value $1,500 - 2,500 View details	Unsold
Lot 661		Spinosaurus Foot Claw and Toe Bone. Spinosaurus was a huge aquatic theropod dinosaur that was even bigger than a T-Rex. Its enormous long narrow skull was more crocodile-like as were its unserrated peg shaped teeth. Dinosaur claws are rarely found and big claws such as this 3.5 inch complete foot claw with a perfect tip and two inch phalange with no restoration are rarer still. The excellent claw also preserves the detail of its small blood grooves. Claws are much rarer than teeth because dinosaurs could replace their teeth but not their claws which were only fossilized after the dinosaur died. This 80 million year old dinosaur claw and toe bone was found in the Kem Kem Valley near Taouz, Morocco. This quality dinosaur fossil is housed in a 8X6 inch Riker mount. Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,200 View details	Unsold
Lot 662		A Wasp, Millipede and Spider in 100 Million Year Old Burmite. Most amber found in the world is less than 60 million years old, but amber from the Hukawng Valley of Burma/Myanmar is 97-103 million years old which means it was deposited from the resin of an extinct conifer tree at a time when dinosaurs roamed the earth. This larger cabochon of Burmite amber contains several different insects and arthropods including a millipede, a wasp and a spider. The millipede is 6mm long, the wasp is 5 mm long and the spider 1 ½ mm long in clear honey colored amber. Estimated Value $750 - 1,000 View details	Realized $625
Lot 663		Huge 3.5 Inch Camarasaurus Tooth With Root. Camarasaurus was a huge saurapod, plant-eating dinosaur that lived 150 million years ago in the Morrison Formation of Colorado. Camarasaurus, meaning "chambered lizard" (referring to the hollow chamber in its vertebrae) lived alongside other more-famous saurapod behemoths such as Diplodicus and Apatosaurus (Brontosaurus). This huge Camarasaurus tooth is 3.5 inches long, consisting of a 1.7 inch enameled tooth and a 1.8 inch, mostly-complete root. Most teeth of dinosaurs are found without their root because they were lost while the dinosaur was still alive; rooted teeth would only be lost when the dinosaur died. Camarosaurus has a larger and sturdier skull than the Diplodicids and its teeth were much larger and of a totally different shape. This Camarosaurus tooth is shaped like a chisel, unlike the slender pencil shaped teeth of the Diplodicids. The shape of its teeth indicates that Camarasaurus ate different types of vegetation from the other saurapods, most likely coarser plants that grew closer to the ground. Saurapod teeth are much rarer than theropod teeth because they did not lose their teeth biting into other animals flesh and bone. This large and rare tooth is in an 8 x 6 inch Riker mount. Estimated Value $600 - 1,000 View details	Realized $400
Lot 664		Important T-Rex Vertebra and Teeth Fragments. T-Rex is the most famous of all dinosaurs and any fossil from a T-Rex is highly sought after. This lot includes a partial vertebra that is 6 X 5 inches missing the neural spines. T-Rex had more than 70 such vertebrae along its spine and tail. This partial vertebra has the unusual honeycomb pattern with air holes seen on T-Rex vertebrae that reduced the weight of the bones. Also, found in the same area as the vertebrae are three tooth fragments, the largest being 1 ¼ inch long all having nice brown enamel preserved. Most dinosaur finds consist of a few broken bones and not anything complete and impressive. These rare 67 million year old T-Rex bones were found the Hell Creek Formation on a private ranch in Dawson County, Montana. Estimated Value $600 - UP View details	Realized $400
Lot 665		Rare Flower with Six Petals in 100 Million Year Old Burmite Amber. Most amber that is over 90 million years old is cloudy and brittle, but some of the best quality of 100 million year old Burmite from the Hukawng Valley of Burma/Myanmar is both clear and very hard, in fact harder than all younger amber. This rare flower with six petals in Burmite amber is 4mm long in a 10 X 7mm honey colored amber nugget. This is one of the earliest preserved flower fossils as flowers made their first appearance about 130 million years ago in the early Cretaceous. Estimated Value $500 - 800 View details	Realized $300
Lot 666		Three Large Floating 475 Million Year Old Crinoids. Found in Erfoud, Morocco, this large 16X9 inch slab contains three near complete large Scyphocrinites crowns with exquisite delicate detail and quite large being 3X3, 3X2 and 2X2 inches. These dark brown 475 million year old crinoids still have some of their stems attached to the crowns. Close examination reveals the detailed feather-like feeding arms and small star-shaped calcite plates. There are two other partial crowns and several sections of additional stems. Crinoids are related to star fish and are known as "sea lilies" because they resemble plants more than animals. Scyphocrinites were an interesting floating crinoid with its stem attached to a round air-filled bulb that floated on the surface of the ocean. When the crinoids died, they would separate from their flotation bulbs and settle on the ocean bottom and the stems would quickly break apart into many pieces. Estimated Value $400 - UP View details	Unsold
Lot 667		Rare Large Aegerocioceras Aberrant Ammonite From Germany. Ammonites looked like squid in a shell and became extinct along with the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. This large 8 X 6½" aberrant ammonite is 100 million years old from Germany. It is contained a hard stone concretion that when it was cracked in half revealed this spectacular uncoiled ammonite. Aberrant ammonites began to uncoil from the usual coiled ammonite shape from some unknown reason in the Cretaceous. This virtually complete dark brown uncoiled trilobite is rare and interesting. Estimated Value $400 - 8,000 View details	Unsold
Lot 668		Pseudoscorpion in 100 Million Year Old Amber. Burmese amber known as Burmite is a fossilized resin that came from an extinct species of conifer tree that grew in the Hukawng Valley in northern Burma/Myanmar 97 - 105 million years age. Many of the insect inclusions in this 100 million year old amber are familiar in shape to existing insects but the particular species they represent is now extinct. This clear golden amber cabochon (13 X 10 mm) contains a complete clear Pseudoscorpion about 5 mm in size. A Pseudoscorpion is actually an ancient arachnid with pincers that looks like those of a scorpion. Estimated Value $400 - 600 View details	Realized $249
Lot 669		Theropod Dinosaur Claw From Hell Creek Formation. This light brown 1 ¼ inch hand claw was found on a private ranch in the 66 million year old Hell Creek Formation of Dawson County, Montana. It is nearly complete with excellent detail including the blood grooves in the bone missing only a tiny portion of the tip. What makes this high quality dinosaur bone interesting is that it could be from a Juvenile T-rex or from a Chirostenotes dinosaur which was a toothless oviraptor. The shape of their claws are remarkably similar unlike the shape of an adult T-rex. Estimated Value $400 - 600 View details	Unsold
Lot 670		150 Million Year Old Dragonfly from Eichstat. Eichstat, Germany is famous for its beautiful 150 Million year old dragonfly fossils. This scarce Nannogomphis bavarics species is the smallest of all of the dragonflies preserved from Eichstat. Perfectly positioned on a 8 X 7 inch lithographic limestone matrix, this dragonfly has a 1 3/4 inch long body and a wingspan of 2 inches long. This complete dragonfly has a well defined head, wing detail and body segments. There are interesting manganese dendrites at the top of the matrix which resembles a plant. Estimated Value $350 - UP View details	Realized $250
Lot 671		Rare Triceratops Juvenile Metatarsal Bone. Triceratops is one of the best known dinosaurs with its distinctive horns and its living at the same time as T-Rex. It is also one of the very last dinosaurs that became extinct with the meteorite impact 66 million years ago. Triceratops fossils are usually parts of the head because of their massive weight of solid bone. Other bones of its body are rarely encountered and a complete skeleton has never been found. This 7 inch long dark brown juvenile metatarsal bone of one its feet is virtually complete with no restoration. It was found on a private ranch in the Hell Creek Formation in Colorado. Estimated Value $350 - UP View details	Realized $375
Lot 672		Predatory Viper Fish Europholis Fossil from Lebanon. This interesting 100 million year old 5 inch long salt water predatory Viper fish, Europholis is from Hajoula Lebanon is virtually complete with excellent detail including an open mouth with several sharp teeth and a partial fish just in front of the mouth that the viper fish appears to be chasing and about to swallow. Viper fish that exist today are mostly deep water predators. This fascination fossil fish is centered on a 6 ¼ X 3 ½ inch cream colored limestone matrix. Estimated Value $350 - UP View details	Realized $425
Lot 673		150 Million Year Old Flying Insect with Color Pattern on Body and Wings. This13 mm lont unidentified 150 million year old flying insect from Ningcheng, Inner Mongolia is complete and perfectly preserved with excellent detail on the head with mouth and eyes and on the body with a well defined color striping and a color pattern on the wings. Both positive and negative halves of this remarkable fossil are included on 4 ¼ X 2 3/4 inch limestone slabs with very distinct color patterns on the body of both halves and a color winged pattern most visible on the positive half. The actual color might possibly be determined if with a microscope the melonosomes are identified by shape as each shape of melonosomes represents a different color. Estimated Value $300 - UP View details	Unsold
Lot 674		Rare Complete 375 Million Year Old Rhenocystis Carpoid. Carpoids are extinct members of the echinoderm phylum of which starfish and sea urchins are members. Rhenocystis latipunculata is known as the mitrate carpois as its shape somewhat resembles a bishop's mitre. A Carpoid's body consisted of calcite plates and a segmented spiny tail along with two feeding appendages extending from its head. This complete 375 million year old 1.3 inch Rhinocystis is centered on a 5 ½ X 4 ½ black slate slab and is from the world famous Hunsruck shale in Bundenbach, Germany. The Bundenback fossils are extraordinary in the they preserve even soft body detail because of their rapid burial and pytitization. The quarries are no longer open so that the only fossils available are from old time collections. Estimated Value $300 - UP View details	Realized $175
Lot 675		Large 9 ½ Inch Mioplosus and 6 ½ Inch Knightia Fish from Green River. Mioplosus labracoides was an extinct relative of modern day perch It is 52 million years old from the famous Green River Formation near Kemmerer, Wyoming. Mioplosus was a voracious predatory fish that had two dorsal fins and a fan-like tail. This dark brown 9 ½ inch long fish on a 9 X 8 ½ inch limestone matrix is large for this species and is virtually complete with most of the scales and fins. There is also a complete large 6 ½ inch Knightia that is light brown on a 8 X 6 inch matrix that has an excellent head, body and fins. Estimated Value $300 - UP View details	Realized $200
Lot 676		Orange-Brown Agatized Dinosaur Bone. Agatized dinosaur bone occurs when the hollow bone structure of the dinosaur is replaced by quartz and trace minerals such as iron over millions of years. The best quality agatized dinosaur bone comes from the Jurassic era in Utah from the 150 million year old Morrison Formation. This thick dinosaur bone is 4 X 3 inches and has a 3 ½ X 2 ½ inch polished end that reveals the bone structure which cells are either orange or brown in color. Estimated Value $300 - UP View details	Unsold
Lot 677		Walliserops Trilobite with Trident Appendage. Walliserops is one of the more bizarre of the spiny trilobites of Morocco. What makes it so strange is the trident shaped appendage on the front of its head. What this was used for is pure conjecture with digging in the soft ocean sand being the most likely. The highly detailed professional preparation on this complete 1 � X 1 inch 380 million year old trilobite from Ikelel Gara, Southern Morocco looks like it is crawling over a rock, with excellent detail on the long curved spines on the backs of its compound eyes, the small individual lenses on one of its the compound eyes and the distinguishing trident appendage on the head. This weird looking black trilobite is nicely displayed on its original 3 ½ X 3 inch limestone matrix. Estimated Value $300 - UP View details	Unsold
Lot 678		Three 475 Million Year Old Ampyx Trilobites with Two Hyoliths. This 6X4 inch dark gray slab from Hmar Logdad, Erfoud, Morocco contains three 475 Million year old distinctive dark brown Ampyx trilobites, two are complete with the largest being 2 ¼ inches long. There are also two mysterious Hyolith animals with small conical shells with an operculum cover. This long extinct animal is believed to have been a type of mollusc. Estimated Value $300 - 500 View details	Unsold
Lot 679		Complete Cave Bear Jaw. Ursus spelaeus, the famous cave bear, was the largest bear that ever lived. They would have been nine to ten feet tall when standing on their hind legs. This complete light brown jaw is between 20,000-150,000 years old and was found in caves in Romania. The jaw is 8 inches long complete with all five teeth, four large molars and a 1.5 inch long sharp canine tooth. Estimated Value $250 - UP View details	Realized $225
Lot 680		Pair of 450 Million Year Old Trilobites from St. Petersburg. Some of the best preserved and most beautiful life-like trilobites come from Wolchow river streams near St. Petersburg, Russia. Both of these 450 million year old trilobites are a light brown color with elevated eye stalks. The 2 inch long Asaphus punclatus is preserved crawling over the 4 ½ X 3 inch limestone matrix which makes it look like it is alive. The other 2 1/2 inch long Neoasaphus is centered on a 5 X 3 ½ inch natural limestone matrix. Estimated Value $250 - UP View details	Unsold
Lot 681		Collection of 35+ Field Museum/Chicago Natural History Museum Postcards of 1930s of Dinosaurs Painted by Charles R. Knight, One Inscribed, Signed. Very scarce collection of postcards all having images of paintings and murals by Charles R. Knight. Knight (1874 to 1953) is famous for his ground-breaking depictions of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals, and wildlife in general. Millions of people are exposed annually to this artist's works in major institutions around the world including the American Museum of Natural History, the Field Museum of Natural History, and the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. What makes this collection great is there is a post card of his famous painting, "The Armored Stegosaurus" where he writes to the wife of Dr. Horace Wood, celebrated paleontologist in Montclair N.J. for sending him photos of his works at Princeton University dated Feb. 25, 1952. Post card authenticated by his granddaughter who overseas all Knight projects. All but a half dozen postcards have been written on. Also included are about 15 modern and in color images of his works. All in fine to excellent condition Bonus: a signed hardback by Michael Crichton of thee of his works (Sphere, Congo and Eaters of the Dead) but best known for Jurassic Park. Estimated Value $250 - 400 View details	Realized $346
Lot 682		Scarce Large 3 Inch Bird Footprint from Green River. Green River, Wyoming is famous for its excellently detailed fish fossils, but there are some much rarer bird footprint fossils found on the perimeter of the 52 million year old dried lakebed. This highly detailed large 3 inch bird footprint on a 8 ½ X 6 ½ light gray matrix has all three toes splayed out as well as a definition of its toenail on the longest central toe. There are some smaller footprints occasionally found but a large print of this size is rare. Estimated Value $200 - UP View details	Unsold
Lot 683		Complete Edmontosaurus Dinosaur Metacarpal. This 10 3/4 inch long X 2 inches wide metacarpal (finger bone) belonged to the duck-billed dinosaur Edmontosaurus. Edmontosaurus belonged to the ornithiscian family of dinosaurs known as Hadrosaurs. The metacarpal is complete with only minor crack filling as usual and was found on a private ranch in the 66 million year old Hell Creek Formation of South Dakota. Edmontosaurus lived alongside T-Rex and was one of its most popular prey animals. Estimated Value $200 - UP View details	Realized $225
Lot 684		Three Large Mosasaur Teeth in Matrix. Mosasaurs were the T-Rex of the late Cretaceous oceans, being the top predator. They were huge marine reptiles 40-60 feet long and related to lizards and snakes. This 7¾ X 7 inch sandstone matrix contains three large Mosasaur teeth. The largest two teeth are 4 ¼ inches long, including their original root, with the third tooth at 1¼ inch long with no root. All the teeth have lovely brown enamel teeth contrasting with the tan colored original roots. These Mosasaur teeth are 70 million years old from Khourigba, Morroco. Estimated Value $200 - UP View details	Realized $120
Lot 685		Carcharodontosaurus Theropod Dinosaur Tooth. 1.6 X 1.2 inch complete dinosaur tooth of Carcharodontosaurus saharicus, the T-Rex of Africa. This complete light brown shed tooth has very good enamel with only minor enamel chipping which almost always occurs, some sharp serrations and no restoration. Found in the Sahara desert of Morocco, Carcharodontosaurus was older than a T-Rex at 70-80 million years old. Carcharodontosaurus teeth are much thinner than T-Rex teeth and were excellent for cutting through flesh whereas the much thicker T-Rex teeth could easily bite through bone. housed in a 5X4 inch Riker mount. Estimated Value $200 - 400 View details	Realized $106
Lot 686		Three Complete Green River Bird Feathers. Green River Wyoming is famous for its exquisitely fossilized 50 million year old fish but there are other rarer fossils found there as well such as these very well preserved bird feathers. The dark brown feathers vary in size from ½ - 1 ¼ inches long and are nicely contrasted against the cream colored limestone matrix. Estimated Value $200 - 400 View details	Unsold
Lot 687		165 Million Year Old Sea Urchin with Three Original Spines. Sea urchins are echinoderms that are related to starfish and filter feed attached to the ocean bottom. This 165 million year old sea urchin, Hemicidaris ernularis was found in Ardeche, France. The dark gray body of the sea urchin is complete with grooves showing where the spines were attached and still contained within its original light gray 3 ½ X 3 inch matrix. There are three spines not attached that are 1 -3 inches in length. Estimated Value $200 - 400 View details	Realized $128
Lot 688		Mineralized Fossil Pendant Having Striking Natural Leaf Pattern with 14K Yellow Gold Wire Mount. Unusual pendant of a highly polished fossil revealing extraordinary natural formation that look like Fall leaves in tan and burgundy. 1¾ x 1¼" with an intriguing 14K yellow gold wire mount that holds fossil firmly in place. Terrific piece. 36 grams. Estimated Value $200 - 500 View details	Unsold
Lot 689		Triceratops Dinosaur Frill Bone. The famous horned dinosaur Triceratops had a thick frill surrounding its skull for protection against theropod dinosaurs such as T-Rex. This large 24 inch long and 2 ½ inch thick section of the frill was found in four pieces which have been reattached. The medium brown bone is very dense and heavy which would have been very good protection against a predator's bite. Most dinosaur bones do not come out of the ground complete and in pristine condition. Usually, they are broken and need repair such as this interesting frill bone section which was found on a private ranch in the 66-67 million year old Hell Creek Formation of Montana. Estimated Value $150 - UP View details	Realized $475
Lot 690		Albertosaurus Dinosaur Tooth. Albertosaurus was a somewhat smaller version of its more famous relative T-Rex growing to just over 30 feet long. Albertosaurus may be a direct ancestor of T-Rex. Unlike T-Rex, Albertosaurus had two short bony crests above its eyes and was also older than T-Rex at 70 million years old and found only in the Judith River Formation of Montana and Canada. This 1 ½ inch mottled brown tooth was found on a private ranch in Montana. It is complete with good enamel and with a small section of the tip being expertly reattached with a minor chip on the very tip. Estimated Value $150 - UP View details	Unsold
Lot 691		Slice of Esquel, the Most Beautiful Pallasite. Discovered in 1951 by a farmer in Chubut, Argentina, the single 680 Kg meteorite known as Esquel has been in great demand as the most beautiful of the rare type of meteorites known as pallasites. There are three major types of meteorites: iron, stony and stony-iron. Pallasites are stony-iron meteorites that originate from the core-mantle boundary of large planetary size asteroids that were destroyed early in the formation of the solar system. This rare type of meteorite consists of iron-nickel from the core of the asteroid, as well as olivine crystals known as peridot from the mantle. Peridot crystals (the gem state of olivine crystals) are the only known gem stones from space found in meteorites. Esquel is now rarely available as the single discovered meteorite has been completely sectioned with only the main mass end piece remaining. This large 74 x 58 x 3 mm section of Esquel has been polished on both sides to get the maximum reflection of the iron-nickel matrix, as well as displaying many beautiful translucent lightly shocked green olivine crystals. It weighs a hefty 63.2 grams and is displayed in a 6 x 5.5 inch Riker mount. Estimated Value $1,600 - 2,000 View details	Unsold
Lot 692		Dramatic, Large Brazilian Clear Quartz Crystal Specimen. A Designer's Dream Element for Any Home or Office Interior (68 Pounds.). Stunning clear quartz, specimen from Brazil that truly impresses. Enormous crystals dot the matrix some three inches wide. What impresses is the overall shape of the cluster, a near trapezoidal shape that is perfectly balanced framing the large crystals to their best advantage. Back of specimen is sheared flat so can be placed almost flush to a wall or back of a cabinet. Specimen is 8 x 18 x 13" and weighs 68 pounds. Shipping in the Continental US and Canada. We will ship in house but do figure it will be about $125-$150 for shipping. Of course local pick-up is available. This is a spectacular piece. Estimated Value $1,200 - 2,500 View details	Realized $688
Lot 693		Tatahouine Vesta Meteorite. The moon, Mars and Vesta are the only planetary bodies in our solar system where we can positively identify meteorites that originated from their surface. Vesta is a very large asteroid with a diameter of over 326 miles and has a gigantic impact crater at its South Pole that is the source of all of the Vesta meteorites. Tatahouine was named for the city nearest its fall in 1937, Tatahouine, Tunisia. Tatahouine is a famous name for Star Wars fans being the name of Luke Skywalkers home planet. The desert scenes in the original Star Wars movie were filmed in and around Tatahouine, Tunisia. The meteorite Tatahouine is called a Diogenite which comes from very deep inside the huge impact crater. This 8 gram complete green meteorite is 20 X 17 14 mm This lovely green meteorite is large for a Tatahouine most of which are less than 3 grams. It has a high olivine content and is virtually a virgin rock from Vesta not vaporized and mixed with other rocks like most meteorites. Its green color with black shock lines make it instantly recognizable as it looks like no other known meteorite. Estimated Value $700 - UP View details	Realized $938
Lot 694		Large Libyan Desert Glass Tektite. Tektites are a mixture of earth rocks mixed with a sprinkling of meteorite material from an immense explosive event that occurred when a very large rocky meteorite vaporized before impacting the earth. The resulting mixture forms glass-like mixture. The color is usually black but it can also be green or yellow depending on the amount of silica present. This large 3 ½ X 3 inch 307 gram specimen of Libyan Desert Glass from a meteorite impact 29 million years ago is unusually pristine from being buried in the sand in the Sahara desert (near the border of Libya and Egypt) It is a yellow to medium green in color with about 20 % of its top being a smooth glossy light green from being sand blasted on the surface and the remainder buried in the sand having the original lightly pitted surface along with some holes that resemble regmaglypts. Most specimens of Libyan desert glass are a pale yellow color unlike the deeper more vibrant yellow-green color of this superior specimen. Estimated Value $700 - UP View details	Unsold
Lot 695		Esthetic 235 Gram Sikhote-Alin Meteorite with Regmaglypts. This 235 gram 3 X 2 inch Sikhote-Alin iron nickel meteorite that fell on Feb.12, 1947 in Siberia is the rarer of the two types possessing regmaglypts, small crater-like impressions that formed by ablation of Troilite (Iron Sulfide) when the meteorite was streaking through the sky at high temperature. The large meteorite body broke up twice during its fall to earth with only the higher breakup creating the meteorites with the regmaglypts, the lower breakup creating the shrapnel type meteorites. The shape of this meteorite is special covered with various sized regmaglypts including one large regmaglypt and a beak-like shape on the upper left side. Sikhote-Alin meteorites are becoming rare to find as the Meteorite field in Siberia has been well searched with very few meteorites left to find. A magnetic Plastic display stand included. Estimated Value $700 - 1,000 View details	Unsold
Lot 696		Famous Canyon Diablo Iron-Nickel Meteorite. This 474 Gram (over one pound) 3 ¼ X 2 1/2 inch Canyon Diablo iron-nickel meteorite is an excellent shaped palm sized specimen with a few distinctive regamaglypts of one of the most sought after iron meteorites by collectors. Most available Canyon Diablo meteorites are flakes that weigh just a few grams. The nearly one mile in diameter crater near Winslow, Arizona was created over 50,000 years ago when a 50 foot in diameter meteorite exploded high over the Arizona desert. Since no specimens are available from the source at Meteor Crater, the only way to acquire a specimen is when specimens are made available from collections. Estimated Value $650 - UP View details	Unsold
Lot 697		Meteorite Esquel The Most Beautiful Pallasite. Discovered in 1951 by a farmer in Chubut, Argentina, the single 680 Kg meteorite known as Esquel has been in great demand as the most beautiful of the rare type of meteorites known as pallasites. Peridot crystals (the gem state of olivine crystals) are the only known gem stones from space found in meteorites. This 27 X 26 mm slice weighing 19.7 grams has been polished on both sides displaying several translucent green olivine crystals including one rare crystal that is completely clear with no shock lines that qualifies as gem quality peridot. Estimated Value $650 - UP View details	Unsold
Lot 698		Quite Fine, One Pound Canyon Diablo Iron-Nickel Meteorite. Scarce. This 3.75 x 2.3 inch, over 1 pound (595grams) Canyon Diablo iron-nickel meteorite is a palm sized specimen of one of the most sought after iron meteorites by collectors. Most currently available Canyon Diablo meteorites are just a few grams in weight. Any specimens are hard to come by as the area around Meteor Crater near Winslow, Arizona has been closed for years. The nearly one mile in diameter crater was created over 50,000 years ago when a 50 foot in diameter meteor exploded high over the Arizona desert. This excellent quality meteorite possesses all of the qualities desired in a Canyon Diablo meteorite, excellent shape with several sharp edges attesting to the explosive force that broke up the huge meteorite, gun-metal color and several shallow distinctive regmaglypts (thumbprints). Since no specimens are available from the source at Meteor Crater, the only way to acquire a specimen is when specimens are made available from collections. Estimated Value $600 - 900 Goldberg Auctions #68 Lot 1148. View details	Unsold
Lot 699		Large 433 Gram Shrapnel Type Sikhote-Alin Iron Nickel Meteorite. On February 12, 1947 a series of loud explosions over the Sikhote-Alin mountain range in Siberia announced the arrival of the most recent large Iron-Nickel meteorite to strike the Earth. These meteorites are the best preserved of all the known major falls. There are two different types of meteorites from this fall, meteorites with regmaglypts and shrapnel type meteorites that resulted from a second explosion much closer to the ground. This 3 X 2 inch 433 gram (nearly one pound) light silver meteorite is a splendid representative of the shrapnel type with sharp edges, signs of melting around the edges and many parallel flow lines from the melting metal caused by the high temperatures passing through the Earth's atmosphere. Parallel flow lines are seldom found on iron-nickel meteorites that fell hundreds or thousands of years ago do to rusting on the Earth's surface. Estimated Value $600 - 1,000 View details	Unsold
Lot 700		Campl del Cielo Complete 366 Gram Slice with Widmanstatten Pattern. The famous iron-nickel meteorite Campo del Cielo fell to the earth over 4,000 years ago in mountainous region of Gran Chaco, Argentina, 500 miles north-northwest of Buenos Aries, in one of the largest and undoubtedly most dramatic falls in the last 10,000 years. Meteorites from this fall were scattered over hundreds of square miles of inaccessible terrain. This 366 gram 5 ½ X 3 1/4 inch complete slice has been polished and etched to show its coarse octahedrite Widmanstatten pattern which results from two alloys of Nickel, Kamacite (the light bands which are low in nickel) and Taenite (the dark bands which are high in nickel). Estimated Value $600 - 800 View details	Unsold
Lot 701		Meteorite from Biggest Meteor Strike Since 1907. At 9:20 A.M. on the morning of February 15, 2013 a large 8-10 ton 50 foot long meteor exploded 10-15 miles above the ancient city of Chelyabinsk, Russia with the force of over 500,000 tons of TNT 10 times the force of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945. More than 1,500 people were injured from flying glass and debris from the resulting shock wave. This was the largest meteor event in the last 100 years since a large meteor exploded over a remote area of Siberia in 1907. The official name of this meteorite is Chelyabinsk. This beautiful fresh 40X18X10 mm complete stony meteorite designated as a LL5 SR4 weighs 14.1 grams LL5 SR4. This meteorite fragment is very interesting in that it has two different fusion crusts. The top has a thick dark brown fusion crust that formed high in the earth's atmosphere when the meteorite first broke up and the bottom side has a much thinner black fusion crust that started to form after the final tremendous explosion. The small sections that are not covered by fusion crust offer a window inside of the meteorite displaying its light gray matrix mixed with specks of iron and brown chondrules It is not possible to obtain a fresher meteorite. Estimated Value $300 - 500 View details	Unsold
Lot 702		Famous Chelyabinsk Meteorite Complete Individual. At 9:20 A.M. on the morning of February 15, 2013 a large 8-10 ton 50 foot long meteor exploded 10-15 miles above the ancient city of Chelyabinsk, Russia with the force of over 500,000 tons of TNT 10 times the force of the atomic bomb that destroyed Hiroshima in 1945. More than 1,500 people were injured from flying glass and debris from the resulting shock wave. This was the largest meteor event in the last 100 years since a large meteor exploded over a remote area of Siberia in 1907. This beautiful fresh 45 X 28X 8 mm complete specimen weighs 24.1 grams which is much larger than the vast majority recovered. It has a fresh dark brown fusion crust covering the entire top half of the meteorite with the bottom side offering a window inside of the meteorite with some glassy black fusion crust just starting to from and displaying its light gray matrix mixed with specks of iron and rust orange chondrules. This stony chondrite is designated as LL5 SR4 meaning that it is of low iron even for a stony meteorite with the total iron content to be about 10 percent. Comes housed in a 8X6 inch Riker mount with a photo of the explosion. Estimated Value $300 - 500 View details	Unsold
Lot 703		Canyon Diablo Iron-Nickel Meteorite Slice with Widmanstatten Pattern. This 178.1 gram 4 ½ X 2 ½ inch Canyon Diablo iron-nickel meteorite slice has been polished and etched on both sides to show its Widmanstatten pattern. Widmanstatten patterns result from acid etching the polished surface of an Iron-Nickel meteorite. The low nickel (5%-15%) Kamacite iron-nickel alloy and the high nickel (up to 50%) Taenite iron nickel alloy etch at different rates in the acid. This Widmanstatten pattern is not found in any Iron-Nickel alloys since it only forms when the alloy cools very slowly only a few degrees over a million years. Estimated Value $300 - 500 View details	Unsold
Lot 704		Two Campo del Cielo Iron-Nickel Meteorites. First recorded by the Spanish in 1576, the huge fall of Campo del Cielo (Valley of the Sky) iron-nickel meteorites occurred thousands of years ago in Argentina. The first iron -nickel meteorite weighs 336 grams and is 2 1/2 x 2 inches while the second meteorite weights 306 grams and is 3 X 1 ½ inches. Each meteorite has an esthetic shape with its iron-nickel surface covered with desirable regmaglypts (thumbprints) that formed when the meteor passed through Earth's atmosphere and the troilite in the meteorite melted. Estimated Value $250 - UP View details	Unsold
Lot 705		Fine Amethyst Cluster Crystal Quartz from Southern Brazil, Deep Purple Color Plus Three (3) Small Quartz Specimens. This is a gorgeous, 10 x 7¼" (actual size) amethyst crystal cluster with deep purple coloration and large crystals, collected from Southern Brazil. The custom base is 1½" tall where specimen seats snugly. Deep naturally occurring purple tones, with the overall condition of the specimen very fine with termination points sharp. Amethyst is a purple variety of quartz and its color derives from iron impurities, trace elements and natural irradiation. It is also a favorite of mineral spiritualists used in Reiki, Chakra balancing, energy work, healing and charge other stones. But for most, a fantastic display piece and the perfect size for the office or home. 10.8 pounds. Also included are three smaller quartz specimens, Rose, Amethyst and Clear quartz. A perfect collection for someone new to the hobby or an old hound who appreciates the beauty. Estimated Value $250 - 500 View details	Realized $163
Lot 706		Nantan Iron-Nickel Meteorite. The Nantan Iron-Nickel meteorite is one of the earliest meteorites that was an observed fall. It was recorded that it fell May 11, 1516 in the Nantan County of Guangxi Province of China. The meteorite fall was described as "stars falling from the northeast direction, five to six fold long, waving like snakes and dragons". It is a seldom offered meteorite composed of 92.35% iron and 6.96% nickel. This 4X 2 ½ X1 inch 782 gram meteorite has the usual compact shape and dark brown color that is common with Nantan meteorites with shallow regmaglypts. Estimated Value $200 - UP View details	Unsold
Lot 707		Scarce N.N. Nininger's Meteorite Crater Study Kit. N.N. Nininger who owned the mining rights to Meteor Crater in Winslow, Arizona went bankrupt mining for what he thought would be thousands of tons of nickel buried under the one mile wide meteor crater. He also promoted the crater to visitors by offering them this interesting Meteorite Crater Study Kit which includes a meteorite fragment, an oxidized meteorite fragment, and impactite sample from the impact, metallic spheroids of metal found around the crater and his 65 page illustrated book "A Comet Strikes the Earth." All of these items are in mint condition in the original cardboard box. Estimated Value $200 - UP View details	Realized $425
Lot 708		Colorful Slice of Dhofar 316 L6 Stony Meteorite. Dhofar 316 is a L6 (low iron) Ordinary Chondrite stony meteorite that was found in 2001 in Oman. Only 3.22 Kg were recovered. This colorful brown and silver slice with specks of iron is 75X75X3mm weighing 51 grams and has been polished on both sides to enhance its beauty. Presented in a 4X6 inch riker mount. Estimated Value $200 - 400 View details	Unsold
Lot 709		One Billion Year Old Stromatolite from Russia. Stromatolites are the fossils of laminated rock formed from layer by layer buildup from microbial mats of cyanobacteria over thousands of years. Stromatolites formed the very first macro fossils found in the fossil record going back several billion years. This stunning polished 7 X 5 inch1/2 dark greenish-gray slab is completely covered with irregular sausage shaped gray stromatolites varying in length from one inch to over four inches. Over one Billion years old, it was found in Russia. Estimated Value $200 - 400 View details	Unsold

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