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LOT 2226
Natural History - Meteorite Crater Tektite Specimen Collection
1 1/4 - 2 1/4 in. (227 grams total, 30-58 mm).
Pebble-like black specimens of meteoric glass of various shapes and sizes. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the personal collection of a West London, UK, gentleman.
FootnotesTektites are lumps of black or dark grey natural glass produced from melted crustal rocks that are caused by large hypervelocity meteorite impacts on sediments.
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LOT 2226
Natural History - Meteorite Crater Tektite Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £182
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Natural History - Polished Copal with Insects
Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
With several insect inclusions including ants and flying insects. 18 grams, 92 mm
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Natural History - Fossil Baby Woolly Mammoth Tooth
Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
A conserved and varnished juvenile Mammuthus primigenius tooth. 493 grams, 10.4 cm
Dredged from the North Sea, probably from Brown Bank, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, UK. From the collection of a Norfolk, UK, lady collector. -
Natural History - Megalodon Giant Shark Partial Fossil Tooth
Pliocene Period, circa 5.2-2.5 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
A partial Carcharocles megalodon tooth displaying good polished enamel. 268 grams, 13.5 cm
Previously acquired on the UK art market before 2000. Property of a Kent, UK, collector.
Carcharodon megalodon is regarded as one of the largest and most powerful marine predators in vertebrate history and likely had a profound impact on structuring of the marine communities. Fossil remains indicate that this giant shark reached a length of more than 16 metres (52 ft) and also affirm that it had a cosmopolitan distribution. Scientists suggest that in life it looked like a stockier version of the great white shark, Carcharodon carcharias.
