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LOT 2532
Large Amethyst Crystal Display Slab
12 1/4 in. (5.9 kg, 31 cm).
A cut section of a geode with prismatic deep purple amethyst crystals. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey, one of the global authorities on the confederate army in the US civil war; thence by descent to his grandson.
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Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 139 grams, 57 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. -
Whitby Ammonite Fossil Nodule
Jurassic Period, Toarcian Stage, circa 180 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
A rounded pebble containing a Dactylioceras tenuicostatum specimen. 330 grams total, 74-76 mm
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Natural Ruby in Zoisite Mineral Specimen Group [50]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising fifty irregular, unpolished specimens. 958 grams total, 15-34 mm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
