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LOT 2279
Natural History - Woolly Mammoth Tusk Section
PLEISTOCENE AGE, CIRCA 40.000 YEARS B.P.
7 1/2 in. (126 grams, 19 cm).
Displaying some attractive patterning. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the North Sea.
From an old Bristol, UK, collection.
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Natural History - Flexicalymene Fossil Trilobite Nodule
Ordovician Period, circa 370 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
The nodule opened to reveal the positive and negative impression of the Flexicalymene trilobite. 167 grams, 75 mm
Ex Cambridgeshire, UK, collection. -
Natural History - Complete Ice Age Juvenile Mammoth Tusk
Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £2,340
A right-side 'fossil' tusk of the extinct Mammuthus Primigenius; ivory yellow-brown in colour and finely preserved with the typically marked curvature of this species; with custom-made display stand. 2.29 kg total, 54 cm wide including stand
From the Siberian Tundra. From the private collection of Mr J S, Northamptonshire, UK. Property of a Cambridgeshire gentleman.
Mammoths were animals of the Ice Age; they co-existed with and were hunted by early man; Siberia is famed for discoveries of frozen mammoth carcasses (see 'Dima' and 'Lyuba' for examples) and for the hut circles where mammoth bones and tusks were used as building materials; tusks have been traded for at least 2,000 years and in modern times, Siberian natives still hunt for them and use the fossil ivory as raw material. -
Natural History - Fossilised Wood Slice Group
Triassic Period, circa 230 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising three polished specimens. 545 grams total, 8-12.6 cm
From Madagascar. Acquired 1950s-1960s. From an old Bristol, UK, palaeontological collection.
