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LOT 2909
Lapis Lazuli Bead Necklace String
14 1/2 in. (59 grams, 37 cm).
Composed of cylindrical beads interspersed with large coin-shaped and cornerless cube beads, the central feature a large kite-shaped pendant; restrung. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx London, UK, art market 1990s.
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Polished Amber with Inclusion
Oligocene Period, circa 45 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Transparent polished specimen with an unidentified inclusion. 0.98 grams, 22 mm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Restrung, using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 200 grams, 60 cm
London, UK, collection, 2000s.
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. -
Two Large Cut and Polished Slabs of Rare Vintage Blue John Fluorite
Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Two irregular slabs showing typical purple, blue and white banding. 907 grams total, 25.3-25.5 cm
From the UK. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
