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LOT 2462
Extinct Animal Bone and Bear's Tooth Collection
POSSIBLY LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 700,000-300,000 B.P.
1/2 - 2 7/8 in. (193 grams total, 14-73 mm).
Mixed group of bone and teeth fragments, including molars and canines. [16, No Reserve]
ProvenancePreviously in several old Stone Age tool collections, having been annotated with two different accession numbers.
Acquired from an Oxfordshire, UK, auction house.
From the private collection of a West Midlands lady collector.
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LOT 2462
Extinct Animal Bone and Bear's Tooth Collection
Estimate £50 - 70€58 - 81 (for guidance only)$68 - 95 (for guidance only)
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Group of Twelve [12] Minerals and Crystals
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Mixed group of specimens including malachite, 'desert rose', quartz, rose quartz, amethyst, pyrite, agate, and others. 2.96 kg total, 3.4-20.2 cm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Ice Age Fossilised Horse Tooth
Pleistocene Epoch, circa 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Molar tooth with some root present. 72 grams, 71 mm
From a UK private collection since at least 1946. Property of a West London, UK, gentleman. -
Cut and Polished Fossil Seed in Nodule
Eocene Period, circa 58-36 million years B.P.Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
The seed cut in half through the middle, exposing the internal structure. 370 grams total, 94 mm each
From London Clay, Isle of Sheppey, Kent, UK. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
