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LOT 2479
Lapis Lazuli Bead Necklace String
16 3/8 in. (50 grams, 41.5 cm).
Restrung to a Y-shape, composed of variously shaped graduated beads interspersed with long claw-like beads, central feature a facetted polygonal bead. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx London art market.
Property of a North London, UK, gentleman.
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British Woolly Mammoth Fossil Tusk Section Group
Pleistocene Period, circa 40,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Mammuthus primigenius tusk fragments. 259 grams total, 4.7-14 cm
Found North Sea, UK. Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985. -
Lapis Lazuli Bead Necklace String
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Composed of alternating grooved cylindrical and oval beads, interspersed with small cylindrical beads; restrung. 29 grams, 43 cm
Ex London art market. Property of a North London, UK, gentleman. -
Green River Knightia Fossil Fish Group
Eocene Period, circa 56-33 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising three Knightia alta fish on individual matrices. 140 grams, 72-90 mm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
In southwest Wyoming (and parts of Colorado and Utah) in the Green River Formation are found some of the world's most outstanding specimens of fossil fish. The Green River system was composed of three lakes: Lake Ulinta, Lake Gosiute and Fossil Lake. These Eocene lakes lay in a series of intermountain basins formed by geological events that uplifted the Rocky Mountains during the early Tertiary time. The climate was much different from the desert-like climate of this area today. Both the fauna (crocodiles, alligators, boa constrictors and some subtropical fish families) and the flora (such as large palm trees) indicate a climate much like that found along the Gulf Coast today. Large amounts of ash found in the sediments indicate that volcanoes were particularly active at this time.
