Paris Dinosaur Skeleton Sale
Published March 10th, 2008
A Triceratops skeleton will be on display at Christie’s auction show-room in Paris, for the next few weeks. The dinosaur, with its missing bones replaced by resin replicas, will be the star attraction at an auction in the French capital on 16 April.
Other lots include the skull of a sabre-toothed tiger, a titanosaur’s egg, the skull of a duck-billed dinosaur and the tooth of a plesiosaur.
The 150 lots, from three private collections, will form Christie’s second annual sale of high-class fossils in Paris. The first auction, in April last year, which raised more than €1million Euro.
Eric Mickeler, expert in natural history at Christie’s and organiser of the auction on 16 April, says that there is a “growing demand” in Europe for high-class, and high-price, fossils. Previously relics of such quality were sold only in New York and Los Angeles.
