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LOT 2348
Boxed Quality Crystal Mineral Specimen Collection [3]
2 1/8 - 2 3/4 in. (415 grams total, 54-71 mm).
Each in a labelled box, comprising: pyrite from Huanuco, Peru; amethyst from Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil; specularite with quartz from Florence Mine, Cumbria, England. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 191 grams, 56 cm
Ex West country, UK, collection, 1990s onwards.
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. -
Large Polished Amber Specimen with Insect and Plant Inclusions
Oligocene Period, circa 45 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
A polished specimen of dark-coloured amber displaying various inclusions. 227 grams, 17.5 cm
From the private collection of a London gentleman, from his grandfather's collection formed before the early 1970s. -
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Cut and Polished Agate Geode Cut Half Collection [10]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9
Comprising ten rounded halves with a polished face showing internal banding, three dyed. 2.62 kg total, 75-92 mm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
