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LOT 2519
Massive Fossil Whale Vertebra
MIOCENE PERIOD, YORKTOWN FORMATION, CIRCA 23-5.3 MILLION YEARS B.P.
8 5/8 in. (2.43 kg, 22 cm wide).
Showing the edges of the neural arch and the base of transverse processes. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Beaufort County, North Carolina, USA.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.VM3; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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Cut and Polished Cleoniceras Fossil Ammonite
Cretaceous Period, circa 145-66 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
Cut through the centre to expose the internal gas chambers. 100 grams total, 57 mm each
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 220 grams, 62 cm
Ex West country, 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 couldn't get to. -
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A Popular Handbook of the Ornithology of Eastern North America
1896 A.D.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Thomas Nuttall - Vol.II Game and Water Birds - Boston, 1896, hardback with cloth covers, 431 pp. 993 grams, 21.5 x 15 cm
Property of an Essex gentleman.
