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LOT 2496
Mixed Cornwall and Somerset Crystal and Mineral Specimen Group
2 1/2 - 5 in. (3.42 kg total, 6.3-12.6 cm).
Comprising: calcite from Dulcote Quarry, Wells, Somerset; quartz from Wheal Wrey, St Ive, Cornwall; sphalerite and chalcopyrite from Great South Tolgus, Tarewaste, Cornwall; pyrite from Trevaunance Cove, St Agnes, Cornwall; goethite from Barngate Level, Restormel Royal Iron Mine, Lostwithiel, Cornwall; quartz on fluorite from Wheal Mary Ann, Menheniot, Cornwall; goethite and quartz from Cornwall; quartz from Royal Restormel Mine, Lostwithiel, Cornwall; pyrite from Cornwall. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the property of a Cornwall, UK, gentleman.
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LOT 2496
Mixed Cornwall and Somerset Crystal and Mineral Specimen Group
Estimate £30 - 40€35 - 46 (for guidance only)$41 - 54 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Restrung, using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 150 grams, 59 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. -
29 Carat Rough Natural Uncut Aquamarine Crystal
Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Pale blue specimen exhibiting vitreous lustre. 5.82 grams, 22 mm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Two Large Cut and Polished Agate Geode Slices
Estimate: £20 - 30 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Two highly polished translucent slices with brown and grey banding with quartz crystal formation inside, one resembling a 'smiley face'. 478 grams total, 16.1-17 cm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
