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LOT 2410
Fossil Crinoid Plate
SILURIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 445-416 MILLION YEARS B.P.
5 3/4 in. (664 grams, 14.5 cm).
Comprising a single Scyphocrinus elegans specimen with good detail. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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Polished Baltic Amber with Insect Inclusion
Oligocene Period, circa 45 million years B.PSold for (Inc. bp): £33
A large polished piece with an insect inclusion. 2.9 grams, 27 mm
From Primorskoje mine, Yantarnyi, Kaliningrad. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman. Accompanied by an illustrated identification card, collection no.3198. -
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Large Cut and Polished Agate Crystal Geode Half Group [4]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising four different size halves, each with a cut frontal edge exposing a crystal lined internal cavity. 2.57 kg total, 9-16.5 cm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.) -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 207 grams, 59 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.
