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LOT 2645
Lebanese Fossil Shrimp Plate
CRETACEOUS PERIOD, CIRCA 110 MILLION YEARS B.P.
5 1/8 in. (283 grams, 13 cm).
A rectangular matrix with three Carpopenaeus sp. specimens. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
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Large Coloured Composite Quartz Nodule
Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Composed of dyed bright purple quartz crystals. 1.94 kg total, 14.1-14.3 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): £85
Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 139 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. -
Large Kyanite Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
A large mass of vivid blue kyanite crystal, an old dealer's label to one side. 1.35 kg, 19 cm
From the private collection of author and historian Dr DeWitt Bailey, one of the global authorities on the confederate army in the US civil war; thence by descent to his grandson.
