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LOT 2540
Cut and Polished Slabs of Vintage Blue John
6 1/4 - 8 7/8 in. (602 grams total, 16-22.5 cm).
Comprising three cut and polished slices. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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Large Cut and Polished Mineral and Fossil Wood Slab Group [4]
Triassic Period, 251-199 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Comprising two polished slices of fossilised wood, an irregular slice of rhodonite, and dendritic jasper. 1.4 kg total, 11.2-23 cm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Natural Boulder Sapphire Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising three specimens, one with a cut face showing clearly part of the hexagonal crystal structure. 158 grams total, 30-64 mm
Ex property of a UK gallery, early 2000s. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 139 grams, 57 cm
London, UK, collection, 2000s.
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.
