The Manuscript and Collectibles Sale

Shaped as a waving flag: one side with Old Glory, the other side shows Buzz Aldrin on the moon standing next to the flag. The inner lining in gilt le

America's iconic WASP rendered in cool silver, soft gold, and warm honey brown, with intensely sapphire eyes and mascara. The Swarovski cry...

The top is decorated by an oval opal measuring approximately 19.00 x 7.00 mm., surrounded by a row of 23 round full-cut diamonds, weighing a total of

Dinosaur excrement is highly sought after both as a conversation and for study by a group of scientists called scatologists. This hugh 6 1/2&#3...

Diplomystus was an extinct genus of herring-like fish that lived in the shallow fresh water lakes of Green River, Wyoming 50-55 million years ago. Th

Cyclobatis was a small bottom-dwelling skate found in the warm seas of 100 million years ago near Hakel, Lebanon. This outstanding, full-size skate i

Mosasaurs were the top predator of the Cretaceous seas 65-85 million years ago. Like the T-Rex on land, Mosasaurs ate whatever they wanted in the sea

This excellent fossil of a 12" long marine reptile is both visually impressive and important as a fossil as this small aquatic reptile was ...

Some of the oldest bird fossils ever found come from Liaoing Province of Northeastern China. This small 4" primitive bird, Liaoxiornis deli...

This bizarre 6 ½" lobster-like crustecean known as Mecochirus longimanatus is unusual in having an unbelievably long front pair of w...

Horseshoe crabs are living fossils that can trace their origin back over 500 million years. They have always been rather rare animals that started ou

This enormous 18 1/2"x5" museum quality fish is from the Green River area of Wyoming and was a very large relative of a herring-lik...

Complete, finely-detailed plant fossils are rare, and flowers are much rarer still. These beautiful brown and gray fossils from Shanddong Province, C

Over 200 million years ago, near Lincoln Park, New Jersey, a medium size predatory dinosaur walked in the mud near the ocean, leaving its footprints

Glossopteris browniana was a strange type of tree known as Pteridospermale, and only grew in the Southern Hemisphere. This very colorful 14&#34...

This complete unhatched Hadrosaur (duckbilled) dinosaur egg is 70-80 million years old and measures 6 ½" long and 5 ...

Selenopeltis bucchi was an unusually large spiny trilobite that crawled on the seafloor of the warm seas of Western Morocco 450 million years ago. Tr

One of the rarest and most sought after Green River Wyoming fossil fish plates is one having a fish aspiration: a fish that choked to death while swa

Aepyornis maximus, the elephant bird, laid the largest egg of any bird known. These eggs would hold over eight quarts of yolk, the equivalent of 170

Because birds have such delicate bones, they rarely fossilize, which is why the early history of bird evolution was poorly understood. The spectacula