Cambi Auction House is pleased to present Henry, the new dinosaur Cambi.
Henry is a specimen of Hypacrosaurus, an ornithopod dinosaur belonging to the family of adrosaurids. For the more moderate size of its skeleton than Tyrannosaurus, its name means "close to the highest lizard" and is distinguished by the high neural spines and the characteristic shape of the crest, high and rounded.
The bone material of this 4-metre-long specimen was collected in a single layer by the natives of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, in a well-defined and relatively small quarry belonging to an outcrop of the Two Medicine Formation, in Glacier County, Montana (U.S.A.).
After the record set last February 25, 2020 with the sale of a rare specimen of Othnielosaurus at 300,000 euros, the first sold in Italy, Cambi confirms itself as a maison attentive to new trends in collecting, such as that of dinosaurs, linked not only to the museum, but now real works of art "living room".
Already in 2010 with a 10-meter-long dinosaur skeleton sold at 1.3 million euros, Sotheby’s had set an absolute record for the European market. In October 2020 it’s the turn of Christie’s with Stan, a Tyrannosaurus Rex with an almost perfect skeleton, high 12 meters and along 4 tail included, sold for the absolute record figure of 31.8 million dollars.
The auction base for the sale of Henry will start from 250,000 - 280,000 euros.
Card of the dinosaur Henry
Hypacrosaurus sp.
Late Cretaceous, Campanian (75-67 Ma)
Indiana Blackfeet Reservation, Glacier County, Montana, United States
Two Medicine Training
Overall dimensions: 330x100cm h. 140cm
Total length of the specimen, from tail to nose: about 4m