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LOT 2290
Natural History - Knightia Fossil Fish on Matrix
EOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 56-33 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 7/8 in. (264 grams, 98 mm).
The Knightia alta on a rectangular matrix, showing good detail. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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Natural History - 'North Sea' Fossil Woolly Mammoth Tooth
Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Showing wear in life to biting surfaces, from Mammuthus primigenius. 2.23 kg, 19 cm
Dredged from the North Sea, probably from Brown Bank, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, UK. Previously acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
Mammoths were animals of the Ice Age; they co-existed with and were hunted by early man. The North Sea basin is a drowned landscape, flooded after the end of the last Ice Age. Fishing trawlers occasionally bring up bones and relics from when the area was inhabited as dry land. -
Natural History - Fossil Whitby Dac Ammonite Cluster
Lower Jurassic Period, Toarcian Stage, circa 180 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
A cut matrix with numerous overlapping Cymbites and Arnioceras sp. specimens. 729 grams, 15 cm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Natural History - Mixed Mineral Egg Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Comprising twenty mineral specimens polished to small eggs, including rose quartz, red jasper, moss agate, agate, dalmatian jasper, and others. 449 grams total, 26-29 mm
Acquired within the UK. Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.
