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Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 176 grams, 56 cm long

From a London, UK, collection.

Panel of sedimentary rock with imprint of a three-toed foot. 1.3 kg, 27.5 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.

A cut and polished section of a fossilised tree. 250 grams, 13 cm

From Madagascar.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

Lot No. 2538
3
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Composed of alternating tabular and collared cylindrical beads, interspersed with small cylindrical beads; restrung. 27 grams, 41.7 cm

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

Lot No. 2539
1
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Containing several insects and other inclusions. 36 grams, 13 cm

From Madagascar.
Acquired 1950s-1960s.
From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection.

A complete Mammuthus primigenius tooth. 1.18 kg, 13 cm wide

From the North Sea.
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.

Lot No. 2541
8
Sold for (Inc. bp): £247
A coarse octahedrite class IIB iron meteorite from a witnessed fall in the former USSR. 31 grams, 25 mm

From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

Sikhote-Alin is an iron meteorite that fell on February, 13, 1947 on the Sikhote-Alin Mountains in eastern Siberia. Though large iron meteorite falls had been witnessed previously and fragments recovered, never before in recorded history had a fall of this magnitude been observed. An estimated 70 tonnes of material survived the fiery passage through the atmosphere and reached the Earth. The strewn field for this meteorite covered an elliptical area of about 1.3 km2 (0.50 sq mi). Some of the fragments made impact craters, the largest of which was about 26 m (85 ft) across and 6 m (20 ft) deep. Fragments of the meteorite were also driven into the surrounding trees. The Soviet Union issued a stamp for the 10th anniversary of the Sikhote-Alin meteorite shower and this reproduces a painting by P. J. Medvedev, a Soviet artist who witnessed the fall: he was sitting in his window starting a sketch when the fireball appeared, so he immediately began drawing what he saw.
Comprising an Otodus obliquus tooth made into a pendant and suspended from a cord necklace; supplied in a gift box. 27 grams total, tooth: 29 mm wide

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

A pair of bookends formed from fossiliferous stone showing sections of goniatite and orthoceras fossils, two large Goniatite sp. fossils set to the frontal face. 2.15 kg total, 12 cm high each

From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

A nodule section containing a quantity of Eleganticeras sp. specimens. 1.7 kg, 15.5 cm

From Yorkshire coast.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

A pair of composites of various sized ammonites with polished upper surface. 141 grams total, 80-82 mm

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

A large specimen showing partial root and clear ribbing; repaired. 75 grams, 97 mm

From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

The Spinosaurus was both a beachcomber type scavenger and an active hunter taking small stranded Plesiosaurs, Pterosaurs, turtles and large fish.
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