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LOT 2469
Historic British Petrology Collection of Rock Specimens
4 - 4 1/2 in. (2 kg total, 10.3-11.4 cm).
Comprising: volcanic ash from Borrowdale, Cumberland; hornblende from Sutherland; granite-aplite from Devon; and luxullianite; three with old labels. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound at various sites in the UK.
Ex Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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LOT 2469
Historic British Petrology Collection of Rock Specimens
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
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Green Mariposite Mineral Specimen Group [50]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising fifty specimens with green chromium-rich mica with white dolomitic marble. 1.15 kg total, 24-91 mm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 155 grams, 60 cm
Acquired on the UK art market before 2000. 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 couldn't get to. -
Blown Ostrich Egg for Display
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Large size egg with a hole at the base. 237 grams, 15 cm
Burwell collection, Cambridgeshire, UK.
