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Ancient Art, Antiquities, Natural History & Coins
Various types, one with old collector's label 'Big Healing Figure / Sepik Papua New Guinea / 1970 purchase / New Guinea Tribal Art / Netherlands'. 1.68 kg total, 5.8-14.5 cm
Acquired 1970.
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Acquired 1970.
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
With narrow rounded butt and broad curved cutting edge. 1.28 kg, 28.5 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
An Oceanic fish lure comprising a polished shell body and a carved hook attached to the reverse with twine. 12.9 grams, 81 mm
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
See Waite, D. & Conru, K., Solomon Islands Art: The Conru Collection, 5 Continents, 2008. Blau, D., & Maas, K., Fish Hooks of the Pacific Islands, Hirmer, 2012; Brunt, P. & Thomas, N., Oceania, Royal Academy of Arts, 2018; Grulke, W., Adorned by Nature: Adornment, Exchange & Myth in the South Seas, At One Communications, 2022.
Such lures were not used with bait but were dragged behind a fast-moving canoe to attract the prey with the abalone shell glinting in the sun to emulate the scales of a fish in order to attract larger fish.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
See Waite, D. & Conru, K., Solomon Islands Art: The Conru Collection, 5 Continents, 2008. Blau, D., & Maas, K., Fish Hooks of the Pacific Islands, Hirmer, 2012; Brunt, P. & Thomas, N., Oceania, Royal Academy of Arts, 2018; Grulke, W., Adorned by Nature: Adornment, Exchange & Myth in the South Seas, At One Communications, 2022.
Such lures were not used with bait but were dragged behind a fast-moving canoe to attract the prey with the abalone shell glinting in the sun to emulate the scales of a fish in order to attract larger fish.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
A section of the end of Mammuthus primigenius leg bone, showing the internal structure of the bone. 630 grams, 15.5 cm
From the North Sea.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
See Guide to the Elephants (Recent and Fossil) in the British Museum (Natural History), BM, 1922, pp.35-47, for discussion.
From the North Sea.
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
See Guide to the Elephants (Recent and Fossil) in the British Museum (Natural History), BM, 1922, pp.35-47, for discussion.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Comprising two Mosasaur prognathodon sp. teeth; one repaired. 75 grams total, 53 - 57 mm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
Mosasaurs (from the Greek for 'lizard') were aquatic dinosaurs which probably gave birth to live young.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
Mosasaurs (from the Greek for 'lizard') were aquatic dinosaurs which probably gave birth to live young.
.jpg "Fossil Turtle Coprolite Group")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising a pair of coprolites. 290 grams total, 74-79 mm
From the Wilkes Formation, Salmon Creek, Lewis County, Washington, USA.
Acquired during the 1980s.
From an old Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
From the Wilkes Formation, Salmon Creek, Lewis County, Washington, USA.
Acquired during the 1980s.
From an old Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising two specimens on matrices. 218 grams total, 77-97 mm
From Brazil.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
From Brazil.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
.jpg "British Woolly Mammoth Fossil Tusk Section Group")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Mammuthus primigenius tusk fragments. 259 grams total, 4.7-14 cm
Found North Sea, UK.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.
Found North Sea, UK.
Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.
.jpg "Woolly Mammoth Bone Fragment on Stand")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising a section of Mammuthus primigenius humerus bone; mounted on a custom-made display stand with an information ticket. 1.22 kg total, 24 cm high including stand
From the North Sea.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
From the North Sea.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
.jpg "Multi Fossil Trilobite Bowl")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
A montage of six different trilobite fossils set in a bowl-shaped matrix. 1.74 kg, 22.5 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
Opened and in two halves, showing the internal cavity encrusted with variously sized crystals in enhanced hot pink colour. 1.2 kg total, 9.4-11.7 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
.jpg "Blue Crystal Nodule")
The nodule split in half to expose the cavity filled with dyed blue crystals. 142 grams total, 47-53 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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