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LOT 2516
Amethyst Gem Tree on Amethyst Crystal Geode Section
7 1/2 in. (490 grams, 18.5 cm).
Irregular geode matrix with light purple amethyst crystals; the metal branches tipped with polished light-coloured amethyst pebbles. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Brazil.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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Group of Ten [10] Cut and Polished Agate Geode Slices
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising ten polished transparent to translucent slices, some with crystal-lined centres, and one with dendritic inclusions. 844 grams total, 9-14 cm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Fossil Otarion Trilobite on Matrix
Silurian-Devonian Period, circa 425-400 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Showing high stalked eyes, elongated spines and granulose bulbous cephalon. 115 grams, 58 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Restrung, using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 150 grams total, 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.
