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LOT 2855
Large Group of Pyrite 'Fool's Gold' Mineral Specimens
3/8 - 1 3/4 in. (2.45 kg total including box, 11-43 mm).
A boxed group of pyrite nuggets with metallic lustre. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Peru.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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Optical Calcite Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
A group of ten optical calcite specimens, each held in a white card collector's tray. 170 grams total, 18-22 mm
Very fine condition.
Durango, Mexico. Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's). -
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Group of Ten [10] Cut and Polished Coloured Crystal Geode Halves
Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Each with a polished cut face and showing a crystal-lined centre; mostly dyed. 1.47 kg total, 60-84 mm
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 Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 138 grams, 64 cm long
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.
