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LOT 2644
Large Pyrite Crystal 'Fool's Gold' Crystal Paper Weight Pair
3 1/2 - 4 in. (1.09 kg total, 8.9-10.2 cm).
Comprising two specimens of small intergrown crystals. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Peru.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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LOT 2644
Large Pyrite Crystal 'Fool's Gold' Crystal Paper Weight Pair
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
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'Bwana Mkubwa Mine' Malachite Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £195
Cut section of malachite showing contrasting banding. 1.8 kg, 14.5 cm
From Bwana Mkubwa Mine, Ndola, Zambia. De-acquisitioned from a private Cornwall, UK, collection.) -
Polished Fossil Orthoceras Column
Devonian Period, circa 400 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising variously sized polished Orthoceras sp. specimens on a textured freestanding matrix. 1.44 kg, 20.3 cm
From Morocco, North Africa. 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): £111
Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 129 grams, 58.5 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.
