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LOT 2326
Fossil Flexicalymene Trilobite Collection
ORDOVICIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 510-445 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 1/8 - 4 in. (1.56 kg total, 7.9-10 cm).
Mixed group of various sizes, all with preserved scales and tripartite body structure. [12, No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK art market before 2000.
Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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Cut and Polished 'Smiley Face' Natural Banded Agate Slice
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
A translucent slice of banded agate with attractive round formations, some darker, forming a smiling face. 62 grams, 91 mm
Ex property of a UK gallery, early 2000s. -
Polished Fossil Scunthorpe Ammonite
Jurassic Period, circa 200 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Cut and with polished upper face showing internal structure, possibly Aegasteroceras sp. 440 grams, 12.7 cm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
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.
