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LOT 2493
Large Rough Aquamarine Crystal on Plinth
88 5/8 in. (3.42 kg total, 22 cm high including stand).
Sub-translucent formation of greenish-blue aquamarine set on a wooden display stand. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a Devon, UK, lady.
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LOT 2493
Large Rough Aquamarine Crystal on Plinth
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Polished Fossil Ammonite Plate
Jurassic Period, circa 199-145 million years B.P.Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Composite plate with cut ammonite slices set in resin. 163 grams, 11.9 cm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
Nothofagus Fossil Ferns in Matrix
Lower Eocene Period, circa 56-48 million years B.P.Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
An irregular matrix with multiple Southern beech leaves. 400 grams, 13.8 cm
From the Redbank Plains formation, Ebbw Vale, Ipswich, 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*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Restrung, using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 155 grams, 58 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.
