Set of 15 boar (Sus scrofa) dental trophies, on high quality escutcheon.
All trophies are marked with a plate " Coigniéres, the date of collection and the initials O.D. ".
Provenance : It should be noted that this set comes from the collection of trophies, of the late Mr Olivier Dassault....
Fossilized bison humerus dating from the Quaternary era - Pleistocene period. Presented on a base.
Height: 39,5 cm (with base)
(Accident, broken and stuck)...
Mount Tazerzait
Chondrite L5, fall of August 21, 1991 near Tahova, Niger.
A heel with a polished face.
10 x 5,5 cm
Weight : 234gr
Chondrules and metal well visible....
Gibeon
Siderite octahedrite classified IVA, discovered in Namibia in 1836.
Polished plate (4 x 3,5 cm) with Widmanstätten figures and a crystal of enstatite (3 x 0,1 cm)
Weight : 34,50gr
Partial crust on one edge....
Seymchan
Pallasite discovered near Magadan in Russia in 1967.
Polished plate: 3,2 x 2 cm, here a mixture of metal (Iron/Nickel) and olivine.
Weight : 9,62gr...
Allende
Carbonaceous chondrite CV3, fallen on February 5, 1969 in the state of Chihuahua, Mexico.
In fact "The Rosetta Stone of planetology".
Sawn plate : 4,5 x 3,5 x 0,3 cm
Weight : 13,80gr
Chondrules and CAI's well visible...
Campo del Cielo
Siderite octahedrite classified IAB, discovered in Argentina in 1576.
Complete stone, nice shape
6,5 x 6,5 x 4 cm
Weight : 427gr
Crust all around...
Seymchan
Pallasite discovered near Magadan in Russia in 1967.
Polished plate: 4,6 x 4,3 cm.
Here only the metal, a mixture (Iron/Nickel) is visible with the Widmanstätten figures, no olivine.
Weight : 27gr...
Set of 7 prehistoric tools: various Libyan glass scrapers, up to 4 cm long.
This is a 29 million year old impactite discovered in the Great Sand Sea in Egypt....
Ivoirite
Tectite from Ivory Coast.
Complete stone : 2,1 x 1,5 x 1 cm
Weight : 3,74gr
It is about the rarest of the tectites.
Collected in the years 1950/1960...
Ouriques
Chondrite H5, fallen in Portugal on December 28, 1998.
Polished plate: 2 x 2 x 0,3 cm
Weight : 3,80gr
Melting crust on one edge, metal well visible....
Tataouine
Achondrite Diogenite.
Fell on June 27, 1931.
Internal fragment of this green ortho-pyroxene, which comes from the asteroid Vesta.
3 x 2,6 x 2 cm
Weight : 30gr...
Tataouine
Achondrite Diogenite.
Fell on June 27, 1931.
Internal fragments of this green ortho-pyroxene, which comes from the asteroid Vesta.
Weight : 50gr...
Nantan
Siderite classified as octahedral IAB.
Discovered in China in 1958.
Plate with Widmanstätten figures and brown-black nodules of troilite.
Plate : 35 x 22 x 2 cm
Weight : 7275gr
Exceptional and museum piece...
NWA 14685
Lunar meteorite discovered in 2020.
It is a polymict breccia composed of a dark basaltic matrix and white anorthite clasts.
10 x 8 x 0,2 cm
Weight : 31,69gr
Very aesthetic plate...
Zagami
Shergottite, Martian meteorite, sold by Robert Haag, fallen on October 3, 1962 in the province of Katsina in Nigeria.
Internal fragment.
Weight : 0,07gr...
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