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LOT 2352
Fossil Aipichthys Fish in Matrix
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, 145-66 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 5/8 in. (222 grams, 91 mm).
Aipichthys velifer on a rectangular matrix with an identification sticker. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom 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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LOT 2352
Fossil Aipichthys Fish in Matrix
Estimate £30 - 40€35 - 46 (for guidance only)$41 - 54 (for guidance only)
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Mixed Ireland, Scotland and English Crystal and Mineral Specimen Group
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising: quartz from Cloghmore Quarry, Costelloe, Galway, Ireland; smoky quartz and hematite from Auchinloch Quarry, Dalbeattie, Dumfries, Scotland; baryte from Mowbray Mone, Frizington, Cumbria; pumpellyite from Creag Brimishgan, Isle of Mull, Scotland; fluorite from Mildam Mine, Great Hucklow, Derbyshire; fluorite from Greenlaws Mine, Daddry Sheild, Weardale, Durham; epidote from Cloghmore Quarry, Costelloe, Galway, Ireland; baryte and dolomite from Frizington, Cumbria; azurite from Gortdrum Mine, Monard, Tipperar, Ireland; Blue John on a display stand from Treak Cliff, Castleton, Derbyshire. 3.35 kg total including box, 3.8-12.3 cm
From the property of a Cornwall, UK, gentleman. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Restrung, using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 150 grams total, 58 cm
Ex Ancient Art Shop, Windsor, UK, 1990s. Ex private West County, UK, collection.
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 Fossil Sand Dollar Group
Miocene Period, circa 25 million years B.P.Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising three domed and polished specimens. 325 grams total, 58-73 mm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
