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LOT 2303
Natural History - Polished Fossil Sea Urchin Pair
JURASSIC PERIOD, CIRCA 200-145 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 1/8 in. (328 grams total, 80 mm each).
Comprising two polished Clypeus ploti specimens. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, 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 Phacops Trilobite
Devonian Period, circa 444-359 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
The aquatic arthropod with its back arched, resting on an irregular matrix. 80.3 grams, 75 mm
From a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman. -
Natural History - Historic Mixed Fossil Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
A mixed group comprising: fossil shells on a matrix from England; a partial fish vertebra from England; a large carnelian specimen from Brazil; a matrix with Myophorella clavellata and a Thracia depressa from England; a bivalve from England; a scallop from England; a pyritized ammonite from Peterborough, England; a bivalve; Nummulites elegans specimens in an old specimen box with collection no.E104. 1.12 kg total, 34-95 mm
Acquired from various sources within the UK. Ian Wilkinson collection, Nottinghamshire, UK, formed since 1985.
