Lot #33 - The Hard Egg
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Auction House:Webb's
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Sale Name:Improbable Gifts for Impossible People
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Sale Date:18 Oct 2012 ~ 7pm (NZ time)
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Lot #:33
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Lot Description:The Hard Egg
A slice of ancient history. Fossilized dinosaur egg displayed in a Victorian glass dome. The first real discovery of a dinosaur eggshell was in 1859 from southern France, by Jean Jacques Pouech. Due to their large size, the French eggs were at first thought to belong to giant birds. More complete eggs were found in 1869 by Matheron. He, in turn, believed these eggs were those of a giant crocodile. In 1877, Paul Gervais published the first detailed study of the eggs, and suggested that they could belong to a dinosaur. They are now known to have been laid by the sauropod dinosaur hypselosaurus. Most fossilized dinosaur eggs collected in the mid 1990s are from Late Cretaceous rocks in China. Spherulitic egg shells show spherical patterns in the crystalline structure with the rarest eggs containing fossilized embryos. Who knows what is really inside? -
Estimate:NZ$600 - 1,500
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Realised Price:
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Category:Scientific & Industrial
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