Lot 13
North America, Western United States, Utah, Late Jurassic, ca. 155 to 145 million years ago; North America, Yukon / Alaska, ca. millions of years old; Central Europe, Czech Republic, ca. 15 million years old. This is a wonderful collection of minerals, including gold, moldavite, and a fossilized dinosaur bone. The gold fleck is from eastern Alaska or Canadian Yukon gold deposits, probably near the Klondike River. The bone is from the carnivorous biped, Allosaurus, cut and polished into a sphere, the remarkable coloration a result of agatization - the bone material replaced with silica creating a marbled black, gray, and crystalline white surface. The moldavite is from a meteorite impact and has a glassy and translucent green coloring. Size: 1.25" Diameter (3.2 cm); moldavite: 0.8" L x 0.125" W (2 cm x 0.3 cm) weight: 3.1 grams; gold: 0.125" L (0.3 cm); case: 1" L x 1" W x 1" H (2.5 cm x 2.5 cm x 2.5 cm)
Gold was discovered by prospectors along the Klondike River region in the late 19th century, resulting in the Klondike Gold Rush from 1897 to 1898. Approximately 100,000 hopeful miners took flight to the Yukon and Alaskan wilderness, less than half made it to the area, only a few thousand even found gold, and a few hundred profited from their discoveries. Imaginably, the few that found gold probably only found flecks of this size!
Provenance: private Hagar collection, Wildwood, Missouri, USA
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#160037
- Condition: Dinosaur bone is cut and polished into a sphere, intact and excellent. Moldavite is regular grade, a few surface nicks. Gold fleck displayed in acrylic case.
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