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LOT 2435
Crystal and Mineral Display Specimen Collection
1 - 2 1/4 in. (407 grams total, 27-59 mm).
Comprising: malachite on azurite, sodalite, pyrite, malachite, imperial topaz, colourless topaz, azurite in granite, bicoloured tourmaline, and others. [10, No Reserve]
ProvenanceProperty of a North West London, UK, lady.
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LOT 2435
Crystal and Mineral Display Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
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Meteorite Crater Tektite Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Piriform in profile with glossy, pitted surface; displayed in a glazed wooden presentation case. 425 grams total, 24.9 x 11.3 cm
From Asia. Acquired on the UK art market. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, Specialist Collector.
Tektites are lumps of black or dark grey natural glass produced from melted crustal rocks that are caused by large hypervelocity meteorite impacts on sediments. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Restrung, using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 156 grams, 60 cm
London, UK, collection, 1990s.
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. -
Polished Baltic Amber with Insects
Oligocene Period, circa 45 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Polished, transparent specimen with two insect inclusions. 3.4 grams, 50 mm
From Primorskoje Mine, Yantarnyi, Kaliningrad, Russia. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
