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LOT 2358
Fossil Shrimp Plate
EOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 58-36 MILLION YEARS B.P.
6 x 3 5/8 in. (417 grams, 15.2 x 9.1 cm).
Rectangular matrix containing three good-sized shrimps. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Lebanon.
From the private collection of a Devon, UK, lady.
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LOT 2358
Fossil Shrimp Plate
Estimate £50 - 70€58 - 81 (for guidance only)$68 - 95 (for guidance only)
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From Madagascar. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Bismuth Crystal Display Formation
Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Bids: 2 | Current Bid: £5
Cluster of hopper crystals exhibiting a stairstep crystal structure and iridescent colours. 15 grams, 33 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Bids: 2 | Current Bid: £10
Restrung, using recently polished oblate Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 140 grams, 59 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.
