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LOT 2890
Group of Two [2] Boxed Large Huanuco Pyrite and Pyrite and Quartz on Galena Crystal Specimens
2 1/8 - 3 in. (573 grams total, 54-74 mm).
Comprising an intergrown mass of pyrite crystals from Peru and a specimen of pyrite and quartz crystals on galena; each on a labelled specimen tray. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Peru.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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LOT 2890
Group of Two [2] Boxed Large Huanuco Pyrite and Pyrite and Quartz on Galena Crystal Specimens
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
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Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Restrung, using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 138 grams, 62 cm long
From an old Lincolnshire, UK, collection. Property of a West Northamptonshire, 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. -
Brittlestar Fossil on Matrix
Middle Ordovician Period, circa 450 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £111
Ophiuroidea sp. on an irregular matrix. 782 grams, 17.5 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Mosasaur 'Marine Dinosaur' Fossil Tooth on Composite Rock
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
The tooth showing dark brown enamel, set in a sandstone matrix with a composite root for display. 567 grams, 15 cm
From Morocco, North Africa. 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.
