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LOT 2450
Hollow Glass Tektite 'Cave' From Meteorite Crater
1 1/8 in. (45.9 grams, 48 mm).
Conical formation with flat base and a circular opening to one side, hollow cavity inside. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceUK gallery, early 2000s.
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Polished Fossil Goniatite Group
Devonian Period, circa 400 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising three polished examples showing some inner structure. 223 grams total, 63-65 mm
Found Morocco, North Africa. Property of an Essex gallery. -
Woolly Mammoth Fossil Tusk
Pleistocene Period, circa 40,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,690
From Mammuthus primigenius, professionally conserved and polished to a high standard. 620 grams, 40.5 cm
Acquired on the UK art market. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector.
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. -
Polished Baltic Amber with Insects
Oligocene Period, circa 45 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Polished, transparent specimen with insect inclusions. 2.63 grams, 34 mm
From Primorskoje Mine, Kaliningrad, Russia. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
