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LOT 2481
Medical Educational Skull
20TH CENTURY A.D.
7 7/8 in. (579 grams, 20 cm wide).
Human skull with upper cranium detached and contents removed; fasteners and locating pins, securing springs; some teeth absent. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
This item is for collection only.
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Insects in Polished Amber
Oligocene Period, circa 45 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
A polished irregular piece of amber with insect and other inclusions. 7.3 grams, 40 mm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Woolly Mammoth Tooth
Pleistocene Period, circa 40,000-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
A complete Mammuthus primigenius tooth. 1.18 kg, 13 cm wide
From the North Sea. 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. -
Polished Fossil Orthoceras Display Stand
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Freestanding display composed of five polished 'torpedos' on a textured matrix, carved from fossiliferous stone and showing multiple Orthoceras sp. specimens. 1.93 kg, 25.5 cm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
