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LOT 2640
Natural History - Large Fossil Woolly Mammoth Tooth
PLEISTOCENE PERIOD, 2.6 MILLION-11,700 YEARS B.P.
8 5/8 in. (2.5 kg, 22 cm).
A complete Mammuthus primigenius tooth. [No Reserve]
Provenance
Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
Literature
See Guide to the Elephants (Recent and Fossil) in the British Museum (Natural History), BM, 1922, pp.35-47, for discussion.
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