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LOT 2400
Box of Eighteen [18] Mineral and Crystal Specimen Collection
1/8 - 4 5/8 in. (1.45 kg total, 0.8-11.7 cm).
Boxed group of specimens including a hexagonal sapphire crystal, amethyst, lazurite, calcite, red jasper, quartz, malachite, prehnite(?), and others. [18, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Brazil.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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LOT 2400
Box of Eighteen [18] Mineral and Crystal Specimen Collection
Estimate £40 - 60€46 - 70 (for guidance only)$54 - 81 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Bids: 3 | Current Bid: £25
Restrung, using recently polished oblate Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 135 grams, 58 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. -
![Group of Three [3] Large Cut and Polished Agate Geode Specimens](https://timelineauctions.com/upload/images/items/small/256039-s.jpg)
Group of Three [3] Large Cut and Polished Agate Geode Specimens
Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising three freestanding sections with polished faces showing mainly grey and brown banding, and each with a central crystal-lined cavity. 2.06 kg total, 9.7-12.2 cm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Large Fossil Shell Cluster on Matrix
Jurassic Period, circa 200-165 million years B.P.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Polygonal mortality display containing a large number of bivalves. 6.85 kg, 35.2 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
