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LOT 2849
Fossil Adult Woolly Mammoth Tusk Section
DEVENSIAN PERIOD, 110,000-12,000 YEARS B.P.
31 1/8 in. (5.46 kg, 79 cm).
A large, curving section of Mammuthus primigenius tusk, showing the internal layering; stabilised. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the North Sea.
Acquired from Milton Keynes Geological Society in 1999.
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.
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