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LOT 2461
Fossil Crab on Matrix
EOCENE-MIOCENE PERIOD, 58-5.3 MILLION YEARS B.P.
5 1/4 in. (1.16 kg, 13.4 cm).
The remains of a fossil crab set in a sedimentary matrix with its legs and claws curled underneath the body. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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LOT 2461
Fossil Crab on Matrix
Estimate £120 - 170€140 - 200 (for guidance only)$160 - 230 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Extinct Otodus Fossil Shark's Teeth Display
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Opening Bid: £5
Freestanding matrix set with seven Otodus obliquus teeth showing good enamel. 1.94 kg, 16 cm
Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Restrung, using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 150 grams, 59 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. -
Very Large Cut and Polished 'Septarian Egg' Nodule Half
Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
The attractive internal structure filled with yellow calcite, brown aragonite, and grey limestone. 2.78 kg, 19.7 cm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
