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LOT 2739
Natural History - Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
DEVENSIAN PERIOD, 110,000-12,000 YEARS B.P.
23 5/8 in. (175 grams, 60 cm).
Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx London collection, 2000s.
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LOT 2739
Natural History - Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
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Natural History - Deltadromeus Dinosaur Fossil Bone Group
Cretaceous Period, circa 90 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising a clavicle bone section and a front leg bone section from Deltadromeus agilis. 295 grams total, 86-90 mm
From Kem-Kem Basin, Morocco. From an old German paleontological collection.
Deltadromeus had extraordinarily delicate and long limbs making it one of the fastest dinosaurs to have existed. This meat-eating dinosaur was an early off-shoot of the theropod line on northern continents that gave rise to Tyrannosaurus and the raptor Deinonychus. -
Natural History - Historic Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Comprising: granite with high mica content from the A40 construction works, Middlesex, collection number 500; unakite from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 229; quartz from Cornwall, England, collection number 295; pyrite, collection number 592; granite, collection number 540; gneiss veins in quartz with two cut and polished faces, collection number 404; granite from the A40 construction works, Middlesex, England, collection number 506; grit from North Transvaal, South Africa, collection number 224; mica, collection number 366. 1.8 kg total, 4.6-20 cm
Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent. Five specimens accompanied by an original historic index file card. -
Natural History - Mixed Historic Fossils
Mainly Jurassic Period, circa 201-145 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
An interesting mixed group comprising ammonites, a rib, an antler, petrified wood and others. 1.71 kg total, 2.5-15.5 cm
Acquired on the UK mineral and fossil market, since 1970. From the historic mineral collection of Richard Valentine Cain, London, UK, thence by descent.
