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LOT 2491
Fossil Mioplosus Fish
EOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 56-33 MILLION YEARS B.P.
8 x 6 1/2 in. (1.8 kg, 20.2 x 16.7 cm).
On a heavy rectangular matrix, showing some good detail. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
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AUCTIONS:
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Mixed Crystal and Mineral Specimen Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising: fire opal from Lomo Deltoro Mine, Zimapan, Zimapan Municipality, Hidalgo, Mexico; quartz from Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall; stilbite from the Storr, Portree, Trotternish, Isle of Skye, Scotland; baryte from Silverband Mine, Dun Fell, Milburn, Cumbria; quartz from Rostowrack China Clay pit, Cornwall; chalcopyrite and pyrite from Mount Wellington Mine, Twelveheads, Cornwall; hedenbergite from Lunner, Akershus, Norway; dolomite from Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa, USA; fluorite from Heights Mine, Westgate, Durham; quartz from Dolcoath Mine, camborne, Cornwall. 1.1 kg total, 3.5-10.4 cm
From the property of a Cornwall, UK, gentleman. -
Woolly Mammoth Fossil Tusk
Pleistocene Period, circa 40,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,690
From Mammuthus primigenius, professionally conserved and polished to a high standard. 620 grams, 40.5 cm
Acquired on the UK art market. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector.
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. -
Great White Shark Tooth
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Showing glossy enamel. 32.1 grams, 73 mm
From the U.S.A. Ex Jack Shaul collection.
