Lot 1758
Type Set of Three Different Dinosaur Eggs. This interesting lot contains three very different dinosaur eggs from China 70-100 million years old (late Cretaceous period), that are becoming quite difficult to locate:
1. Oviraptor egg: 6½ x 3 in. oblong egg made famous by the mother Oviraptor sitting on a nest of these eggs. Embryonic bones were found in a very small number of these eggs, confirming that they belong to the bird-like theropod, Oviraptor. About 60% of the ratite black shell is visible on the top of the egg. The bottom of the egg contains no shell, but does have shell impressions.
2. 80 million year old duckbilled dinosaur egg, 6 x 5 in with about 50% of the original egg shell. The shell that is present on this attractive egg has been air brushed to a medium brown color. There is shell present on all sides of the egg.
3. 70 million year old Therizinosaur egg, 4 x 2¼ in. with 80% of the original egg shell, which has been airbrushed to reveal its unusual gray color. Therizinosaurs were the most bizarre of dinosaurs. They were bipedal with two-foot-long claws like a theropod and the long neck and small head of a plant-eating dinosaur.
Estimated Value $1,000 - 1,700.
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| Realized $1,150 |
