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LOT 2937
Manganese Dendrite Landscape Plaque Collection
3 1/2 - 4 1/8 in. (340 grams total, 8.8-10.5 cm).
A group of three sawn rectangular shale specimens, each displaying manganese oxide dendrites to both faces. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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Collection of Ten [10] Cut and Polished Agate Geode Halves
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Each with one or two cut faces exposing the internal structure, some showing crystal formations. 3.22 kg total, 76-85 mm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Very Large Spinosaurus Dinosaur Fossil Tooth
Cretaceous Period, circa 125-113 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Slightly curving tooth with striations, restored. 109 grams, 10.8 cm
From Morocco, North Africa. From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
The Spinosaurus was both a beachcomber type scavenger and an active hunter taking small stranded Plesiosaurs, Pterosaurs, turtles and large fish; adults weighed up to 21 tonnes and grew up to 18 meters long. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Restrung, using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 163 grams total, 60 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.