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LOT 2591
Large Kalahari Desert Wind Stone
5 in. (870 grams, 12.8 cm).
A wind-rounded pebble in a hollowed out 'nest'; with a hessian draw-ribbon pouch. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the Kalahari Desert.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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Large Geode Section with 'Snowball' Quartz
Estimate: £1,500 - 2,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £750
Rounded geode section with polished borders, lined with snowball-like formations of grey, white and light blue quartz; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 23.95 kg total, 51 cm including stand
From Artigas, Uruguay. Property of a London lady. -
Large Coloured Composite Quartz Nodule
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Composed of dyed bright purple quartz crystals. 3.11 kg total, 13.5-14 cm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 130 grams, 57 cm
London, UK, collection, 2000s.
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.
