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Lot No. 2463
3
Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Composed of facetted polygonal beads interspersed with small oblate beads; restrung. 14 grams, 43.5 cm

Ex London art market.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.

Lot No. 2464
6
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Comprising seven milky examples showing good play of colour, five polished. 6.71 grams total, 8-22 mm

Acquired on the UK art market before 2000.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.

Lot No. 2465
9
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
A freestanding display, polished to enhance the mimicking patterns and colours of an orca. 628 grams, 12.6 cm

From Madagascar.
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Lot No. 2466
4
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Restrung using six cylindrical beads interspersed with mainly oblate beads, four of the cylindrical beads with engraved ring-and-dot motifs and circumferential grooves; central motif an elbow bead with facetted edges and engraved ring-and dot motifs. 38 grams, 46 cm

Ex London art market.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.

A Morocconites malladoides specimen displaying the characteristic upcurved, frontal medial spine. 152 grams, 69 mm

From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.

Morocconites malladoides is thought to have been a epifaunal detritivore.
Lot No. 2468
2
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising three specimens on a matrix. 145 grams total, 51-66 mm

From the Green River Formation, south-western Wyoming, U.S.A.
Collected between 1930 and 1960.
From the collection of the palaeontologist R. Gledhill.

A flat-section piece of polished amber with insect and other inclusions. 4.4 grams, 42 mm

From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

Comprising two joined leaves from an extinct genus Sapindopsis, related to modern Platanaceae family. 426 grams, 203 mm

From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Comprising various size Otodus obliquus teeth. 41 grams total, 13-39 mm

From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

A shallow bowl carved from fossiliferous stone, showing a section of a large Orthoceras sp. specimen. 218 grams, 12 cm

From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Comprising two main bodies, one with remains of other bone fragments to the side. 1000 grams total, 95 - 105 mm

From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

See O’Keefe, F.R., The evolution of plesiosaur and pliosaur morphotypes in the Plesiosauria (Reptilia: Sauropterygia), 2002, Paleobiology, 28: 101-112.

Lot No. 2474
6
Sold for (Inc. bp): £260
Ceramic model of the cranium of a Neanderthal with upper mandible and dentition. 1.91 kg, 23.5 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.

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