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LOT 2487
Mixed Crystal and Mineral Specimen Group
3/4 - 4 1/8 in. (843 grams total, 1.9-10.5 cm).
Comprising: mimetite from Dry Gill Mine, Caldbeck Fell, Cumbria; stibnite from Wheal Leigh, Pillaton, Cornwall; scorodite from Hemerdon Ball mine, Plympton, Devon; goethite from Restormel Royal Iron Mine, Lostwithiel, Cornwall; rutile from Brazil; galena from Mendip Hills, Somerset; pyromorphite from Burgam Mine, Stiperstones, Shropshire; fluorite and calcite from Harding County, Illinois, USA; crystalline malachite from Lubumbashi, the Democratic Republic of Congo. [9, 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): £78
Restrung, using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 158 grams, 58 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 Grmmoceras and Cotteswoldia Ammonite Cluster
Jurassic Period, Toarcian Stage, circa 180 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
A triangular composite matrix with Grmmoceras with some Cotteswoldia examples, and a belemnite. 364 grams, 13.5 cm
Likely from Yorkshire. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. -
Mixed Crystal and Mineral Specimen Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Comprising: fire opal from Lomo Deltoro Mine, Zimapan, Zimapan Municipality, Hidalgo, Mexico; quartz from Geevor Mine, Pendeen, Cornwall; stilbite from the Storr, Portree, Trotternish, Isle of Skye, Scotland; baryte from Silverband Mine, Dun Fell, Milburn, Cumbria; quartz from Rostowrack China Clay pit, Cornwall; chalcopyrite and pyrite from Mount Wellington Mine, Twelveheads, Cornwall; hedenbergite from Lunner, Akershus, Norway; dolomite from Keokuk, Lee County, Iowa, USA; fluorite from Heights Mine, Westgate, Durham; quartz from Dolcoath Mine, camborne, Cornwall. 1.1 kg total, 3.5-10.4 cm
From the property of a Cornwall, UK, gentleman.
