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LOT 2259
Natural History - Woolly Mammoth Bone Fragment on Stand
DEVENSIAN PERIOD, 110,000-12,000 YEARS B.P.
9 1/2 in. (1.22 kg total, 24 cm high including stand).
Comprising a section of Mammuthus primigenius humerus bone; mounted on a custom-made display stand with an information ticket. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From the North Sea.
From a Lincolnshire, UK, collection.
Property of a Cambridgeshire, UK, gentleman.
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