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LOT 2391
Large Fossil Brittle Star Plate
ORDOVICIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 485-443 MILLION YEARS B.P.
9 1/8 in. (1.63 kg, 23.2 cm).
An irregular matrix with Ophiuroidea sp. specimen. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
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Two Massive Smoky Quartz Crystal Specimens
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising two specimens of large intergrown pyramidal smoky quartz crystals. 2.38 kg total, 12.3-12.4 cm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Restrung, using recently polished oblate Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 126 grams, 59 cm
From a UK collection formed in the early 2000s. Property of an Essex, 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. -
Very Large Cut and Polished 'Septarian Egg' Nodule Half
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
The attractive internal structure filled with yellow calcite, brown aragonite, and grey limestone. 2.78 kg, 19.7 cm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
