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Composite plate with cut ammonite slices set in resin. 124 grams, 12 cm



From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

Comprising a quantity of small specimens in a display box. 8.67 grams total, 58 x 38 mm including box



Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.

An oval pebble showing mainly blue and green iridescence. 221 grams, 87 mm



From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.

Composed of coin-shaped and tubular beads with a large coin-shaped pendant, restrung. 41.9 grams, 32 cm



Acquired in the 1990s-early 2000s. Ex London, UK, collection.

Composed of spherical beads interspersed with barley twist beads and a large fish-shaped bead at the centre; restrung. 47.5 grams, 41 cm



Acquired in the 1990s-early 2000s. Ex London, UK, collection.

Composed of coin-shaped and tubular beads with a teardrop-shaped pendant, restrung. 30.8 grams, 33.5 cm



Acquired in the 1990s-early 2000s. Ex London, UK, collection.

Molar tooth with some root present. 72 grams, 71 mm



From a UK private collection since at least 1946. Property of a West London, UK, gentleman.

Comprising: the body of a crab with remnants of the front claw; a large section of a fossilised lobster. 184 grams total, 5-11.3 cm



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.

Tapering specimens with some small insect and other inclusions. 6.93 grams, 87 mm



From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.

Roughly semicircular head, and the genal roll with genal prolongations. 117 grams, 77 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.

Comprising eleven cut slices showing contrasting green banding. 845 grams total, 5.5-16.8 cm



From the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.

Restrung, using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 155 grams, 58 cm



Ex Ancient Art Shop, Windsor, UK, 1990s. Ex private West County, UK, collection.

The mammoth lineage branched from the Asian elephant around 6 million years ago, and later on, the Woolly Mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, evolved in eastern Siberia. Woolly mammoths, being slightly smaller than living African elephants, were foragers and ate grass, as well as small, nutritious flowering plants that flourished in the environment where they lived. They may also have used their curved tusks to dig through snow and eat plants that other foragers were unable to reach.