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LOT 2870
Natural History - Woolly Rhinoceros Upper Rear Tooth
ICE AGE, 50,000-20,000 YEARS B.P.
3 in. (180 grams, 74 mm).
With stub roots. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From Yakutsk, Permafrost Region, Siberia.
Acquired from an old Dutch collection.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
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