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LOT 2815
Natural History - Historic 'Peru' Tetrahedrite and Chalcopyrite on Quartz Mineral Specimen
2 3/8 in. (64 grams, 60 mm).
Featuring small tetrahedrite and chalcopyrite crystals on a bed of small quartz crystals, collection number 441, with an old Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd label. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970.
From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent.
Accompanied by an original historic index file card.
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LOT 2815
Natural History - Historic 'Peru' Tetrahedrite and Chalcopyrite on Quartz Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
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Natural History - Complete Ice Age Juvenile Woolly Mammoth Tusk
Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,470
A right-side 'fossil' tusk of the extinct Mammuthus Primigenius; ivory yellow-brown in colour and finely preserved with the typically marked curvature of this species; with custom-made display stand. 2.29 kg total, 54 cm wide including stand
From the Siberian Tundra. From the private collection of Mr J S, Northamptonshire, UK. Property of a Cambridgeshire gentleman.
Mammoths were animals of the Ice Age; they co-existed with and were hunted by early man; Siberia is famed for discoveries of frozen mammoth carcasses (see 'Dima' and 'Lyuba' for examples) and for the hut circles where mammoth bones and tusks were used as building materials; tusks have been traded for at least 2,000 years and in modern times, Siberian natives still hunt for them and use the fossil ivory as raw material. -
Natural History - Large Historic 'Cornwall, England' Granite Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Displaying greyish white, white, black, and pale bluish grey colours, coarse-to fine-grained structure, collection number 85. 2.26 kg, 17.6 cm
Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
Natural History - Whitby Dac Fossil Ammonites
Jurassic Period, Toarcian Stage, circa 180 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
The irregular matrix showing multiple specimens, possibly Eleganticeras sp. 810 grams, 14.8 cm
Found Whitby Dac, UK. From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
