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LOT 2519
Fossil Brittle Star Group
ORDOVICIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 485.4-443.8 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 3/8 in. (858 grams total, 11-11.1 cm).
Comprising two irregular matrices, each with a Ophiuroidea sp. specimen; one repaired. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
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Amethyst Crystal Mineral Specimen Group [100]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising one hundred geode sections with vibrant prismatic amethyst crystals. 2.33 kg total, 23-72 mm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Carved Stone Goat Figure
Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Carved from a brown veined stone as a standing goat with curving horns. 90 grams, 77 mm
Ex S.M. London collection, UK, 1970-1990s. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 191 grams, 56 cm
Ex West country, UK, collection, 1990s onwards.
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.
