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LOT 2464
Large Deep Purple Amethyst Cathedral Display
CIRCA 140-120 MILLION YEARS B.P.
33 x 15 x 10 5/8, 44 in. (40.65 kg, 84 x 38 x 17 cm, 112 cm including stand).
A complete half of a pyramidal geode, showing deep purple amethyst crystals with tan-coloured druzy quartz; mounted on a custom-made display stand.
ProvenanceFrom Artigas, Uruguay.
Property of a London lady.
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LOT 2464
Large Deep Purple Amethyst Cathedral Display
Estimate £2,000 - 3,000€2,320 - 3,480 (for guidance only)$2,700 - 4,050 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£1,100 (EUR 1,276; USD 1,485) +BP*
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Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Restrung, using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 160 grams, 60 cm
Ex Ancient Art Shop, Windsor, UK, 1990s. Ex private West County, UK, collection.
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. -
Polished Goniatite and Orthoceras Fossil Round Lidded Box
Devonian Period, circa 400 million years B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Good-sized cylindrical box with a lid carved from fossiliferous stone, the lid set with a goniatite specimen. 766 grams, 11 cm wide
Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
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Group of Twenty [20] Cut Malachite Slices
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising twenty irregular, unpolished specimens showing contrasting banding. 622 grams total, 4.4-16 cm
From the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
