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LOT 2540
Large Group of One Hundred [100] Small Pyrite (Fool's Gold) Specimens
5/8 - 1 1/8 in. (990 grams total, 16-29 mm).
Comprising one hundred clusters of small pyrite crystals. [100, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Brazil.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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LOT 2540
Large Group of One Hundred [100] Small Pyrite (Fool's Gold) Specimens
Estimate £20 - 30€23 - 35 (for guidance only)$27 - 41 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Extinct Animal Bone and Bear's Tooth Collection
Possibly Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 700,000-300,000 B.P.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Bids: 2 | Current Bid: £20
Mixed group of bone and teeth fragments, including molars and canines. 193 grams total, 14-73 mm
Previously in several old Stone Age tool collections, having been annotated with two different accession numbers. Acquired from an Oxfordshire, UK, auction house. From the private collection of a West Midlands lady collector. -
Fossil Fern in Matrix
Triassic Period, circa 228-208 million years B.P.Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Bids: 2 | Current Bid: £10
Thinnfeldia talgarbarensis showing two branching leaves on a matrix. 91 grams, 95 mm
From the Blackstone formation, Dinmore Quarry, Queensland, Australia. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. -
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. 150 grams, 59 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.
