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LOT 2447
Natural History - Mastodon Bone Face Carving
PLIOCENE PERIOD, 5.2-2.5 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 in. (74 grams, 78 mm).
Displaying a later carved stylised face with exaggerated facial detailing. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePrivate UK collection formed in the 1980s.
Property of an East Sussex, UK, teacher.
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Natural History - British Fossil Aspidoceras Ammonite Display with Incredible Spines
Jurassic Period, circa 200 million years B.P.Estimate: £3,000 - 4,000 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £833
Comprising an excessively large and rare specimen of Aspidoceras Logispinum, displaying superb lateral spines or tubercles; developed from the grey lias matrix. 5.5 kg, 27 cm
From North Yorkshire, UK. -
Natural History - Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Devensian Period, 110,000-12,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £124
Restrung using graduated and polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads of roughly spherical form. 250 grams, 66 cm long
UK gallery, early 2000s. -
Natural History - Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Devensian Period, circa 110,000-12,000 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Mainly oblate, from Mammuthus primigenius. 129 grams, 68 cm long
From an old Lincoln, UK, collection.
