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LOT 2734
Large Cut and Polished Agate Geode Slice Group
6 3/4 - 11 3/8 in. (930 grams total, 17-29 cm).
Comprising: a circular slice with light grey to cream banding with colourless quartz crystals; an irregular slice with brown banding and pale purple and colourless amethyst and quartz crystals; an irregular slice with dark grey to light grey banding. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
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From an old Lincolnshire, UK, collection. Property of a West Northamptonshire, UK, gentleman.
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.
