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LOT 2390
Natural History - Amber with Insect Inclusions
OLIGOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 45 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3/4 in. (1.9 grams, 17 mm).
Including at least one fly; with a polished body. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx private UK collection formed in the 1980s.
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Natural History - Coloured Quartz Nodule
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From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Fossil Mosasaur Tooth with Root
Cretaceous Period, 145-65 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Set on a sandstone matrix; tooth repaired. 250 grams, 95 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
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Natural History - Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Devensian Period, 110,000-12,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £91
Restrung using polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 107 grams, 66 cm long
From an old Lincoln, UK, collection.
