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LOT 2403
Group of Three Hundred [300] Brown Calcite Specimens
3/4 - 1 1/4 in. (1.66 kg total, 18-32 mm).
Comprising three hundred honey-coloured chunks of calcite displaying vitreous lustre. [300, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Mexico.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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LOT 2403
Group of Three Hundred [300] Brown Calcite Specimens
Estimate £30 - 40€35 - 46 (for guidance only)$41 - 54 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Restrung, using recently polished oblate Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 126 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. -
Large Fossil Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Jaw Fragment
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-65 million years B.P.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Large jaw fragment set with two teeth, with another two showing within the jaw. 582 grams, 16.1 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
The Mosasaur is an extinct, large marine reptile dinosaur with an elongated body, long snout and paddle-like limbs. Found worldwide, they competed with other well-known sea predators of the Late Cretaceous, such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, for food, existing primarily on a diet of ammonoids, cuttlefish and fish. -
Bactrian Style Lapis Lazuli Bead Necklace String
Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Composed of tubular and coin-shaped beads, restrung. 48 grams, 37 cm
Acquired in the 1990s-early 2000s. Ex London, UK, collection.
