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LOT 2351
Irish Azurite Mineral Specimen
3 1/8 in. (163 grams, 79 mm).
Comprising vivid blue druzy azurite with green malachite. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Tynagh Mine, Killimor, County Galway, Ireland.
From the property of a Cornwall, UK, gentleman.
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Agate and Amethyst 'Window' Display
Cretaceous Period, circa 120-140 million years B.P.Estimate: £2,000 - 3,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £1,050
Polished geode section with six rounded openings creating windows to the inside of the geode, the internal walls lined with vibrant purple amethyst crystals; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 3.15 kg, 24.5 x 16 x 11 cm, 35.5 cm including stand
From Artigas, Uruguay. Property of a London lady. -
Polished Fossil Orthoceras Column
Devonian Period, circa 400 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Comprising variously sized polished Orthoceras sp. specimens on a textured freestanding matrix. 1.34 kg, 21.5 cm
From Morocco. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
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.
