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LOT 2493
Mixed Crystal and Mineral Specimen Group
1 - 3 1/4 in. (1 kg total, 25-83 mm).
Comprising: vibrant green dioptase from Tsumeb, Namibia; gypsum desert rose from Tunisia; Prehenite from Poona, India; dolomite from Peru; spray-like formation of scolceite from Poona, India; blue azurite from the Democratic Republic of Congo; amethyst from Brazil; stellerite from Rudni, Kusteni Oblast, Kazakhstan; Wolframite from Carrock Mine, Mungrisdale, Caldbeck Fells, Cumbria; thomsonite, chabazite, stilbite and stellerite from Moonen Bay, Isle of Skye. [10, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the private collection of a Cornish, UK, gentleman.
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Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Restrung, using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 156 grams, 60 cm
London, UK, collection, 1990s.
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. -
Fossil Elrathia Trilobite Pair
Devonian Period, circa 385-359 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising two Elrathia kingii specimens on rectangular matrices. 236 grams total, 8-10.7 cm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
Fossil Ceratarges Trilobite
Devonian Period, circa 400 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Likely Ceratarges spinosus showing the distinctive protective spines. 190 grams, 79 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
