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LOT 2737
Mixed Stone Bead Necklace Group
18 1/8 in. (313 grams total, each app. 46 cm long).
Comprising thirty-one necklaces with oblate and tubular beads in lapis lazuli, serpentine, steatite and other stones. [31, No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx property of a London, UK, gentleman; acquired from his father's collection.
Property of a Californian, USA, collector.
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Cut and Polished Fossil Ammonite
Jurassic Period, circa 199-145 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Cut half Cleoniceras sp. ammonite, polished to reveal the distinctive structure of the chambers, some iridescence to the outer shell. 108 grams, 10.4 cm
From Madagascar. 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. -
Facetted Garnet Bead String
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Composed of teardrop-shaped facetted garnet beads, tassel to each end. 26 grams, 39.5 cm
Property of a Stockport, UK, collector. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 202 grams, 63 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.
