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LOT 2317
Natural History - Fossil Baby Woolly Mammoth Tooth
PLEISTOCENE PERIOD, 2.6 MILLION-11,700 YEARS B.P.
4 1/8 in. (493 grams, 10.4 cm).
A conserved and varnished juvenile Mammuthus primigenius tooth. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Dredged from the North Sea, probably from Brown Bank, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, UK.
From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector.
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