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LOT 2813
Fossil Equus Ice Age Horse and Woolly Rhino Vertebra Group
PLEISTOCENE PERIOD, 40,000-20,000 B.P.
3 3/4 - 4 7/8 in. (495 grams total, 9.3-12.4 cm).
Comprising: Equus ferus CV5 vertebra, inked collection number '73'; Cervus elaphans V2 vertebra, inked collection number '74'; Coelodonta antigua woolly rhino vertebra, inked collection number '75'. [3, No Reserve]
Provenance
From Barton, Northamptonshire, UK.
Acquired from Milton Keynes Geological Society in 1999.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.VM73,74 & 75; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
Literature
See Schmid, E., Atlas of Animal Bones, Elsevier, 1972.
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LOT 2813
Fossil Equus Ice Age Horse and Woolly Rhino Vertebra Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
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