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LOT 2428
Bactrian Style Lapis Lazuli Bead Necklace String
15 3/4 in. (70.9 grams, 40 cm).
Composed of tubular, polygonal, and coin-shaped beads with a teardrop-shaped pendant, restrung. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired in the 1990s-early 2000s.
Ex London, UK, collection.
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LOT 2428
Bactrian Style Lapis Lazuli Bead Necklace String
Estimate £50 - 70€58 - 81 (for guidance only)$68 - 95 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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2 Kg of Rose Quartz Fragments
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Large quantity of pale pink rose quartz chips. 2 kg total, 1 - 30 mm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
White Quartz Crystal Display
Cretaceous Period, circa 140-120 million years B.P.Estimate: £1,000 - 1,400 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £550
A polished geode section with large prismatic quartz crystals in flower-like radiating clusters; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 16.4 kg, 30 x 34 x 23 cm, 35 cm including stand
From Artigas, Uruguay. Property of a London lady. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Restrung, using recently polished oblate Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 146 grams total, 57 cm
From a UK collection formed in the early 2000s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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.
