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Gentleman's Library Sale

Session: Gentleman's Library Sale - Natural History

London, Knightsbridge
30 Jan 2013, session starting at 10:00 GMT
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Large pair of Irish Elk horns (restored)
Sold for £15,000 inc. premium
An impressive and large pair of Irish Elk horns (Megaloceros giganteus))
A mounted skeleton of a Pigmy Hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis)
Sold for £11,250 inc. premium
A mounted skeleton of a Pigmy Hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis)
Lapiz Lazuli Freeform
Sold for £5,625 inc. premium
Lapiz Lazuli freeform,
A Multi-coloured petrified wood slab mounted on a Perspex stand.
Sold for £5,625 inc. premium
A multicoloured petrified wood slab,

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Mahogany geological mineral & fossil chest (James Tennant)
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A rare Charles Tennant mahogany cabinet of minerals, rocks and fossils, English, dated 1858,
Sold for £5,000 inc. premium
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