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LOT 2557
Fossil Procerites Ammonite
JURASSIC PERIOD, BAJOCIAN, CIRCA 170-168 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 1/4 in. (316 grams, 10.7 cm).
Showing fine ribbing and typical shallow whirls, an inked collector's number '293'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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Amethyst Gem Tree on Amethyst Crystal Geode Section
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Irregular geode matrix with light purple amethyst crystals; the metal branches tipped with polished light-coloured amethyst pebbles. 490 grams, 18.5 cm
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Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Restrung, using recently polished oblate Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 146 grams total, 57 cm
From a UK collection formed in the early 2000s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
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.
