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LOT 2421
Polished 'Designer' Fossil Goniatite Dish
UPPER DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 385-359 MILLION YEARS B.P.
4 1/2 in. (153 grams, 11.3 cm).
Carved from fossiliferous stone and set with a larger Goniatite specimen. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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LOT 2421
Polished 'Designer' Fossil Goniatite Dish
Estimate £30 - 40€35 - 46 (for guidance only)$41 - 54 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Manganese Dendrite Landscape Plaque Group
Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
A group of three sawn rectangular shale specimens, each displaying manganese oxide dendrites resembling ferns and branching vegetation. 410 grams total, 10.9 x 7 - 9.7 x 7.6 cm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Bactrian Style Lapis Lazuli Bead Necklace String
Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Composed of tubular, polygonal, and coin-shaped beads with a teardrop-shaped pendant, restrung. 70.9 grams, 40 cm
Acquired in the 1990s-early 2000s. Ex London, UK, collection. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Bids: 3 | Current Bid: £25
Restrung, using recently polished oblate Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 135 grams, 58 cm
From a UK collection formed in the early 2000s. Property of an Essex, UK, gentleman.
The mammoth lineage branched from the Asian elephant around 6 million years ago, and later on the Woolly Mammoth, Mammuthus primigenius, evolved in eastern Siberia. Woolly mammoths, being slightly smaller than living African elephants, were foragers and ate grass, as well as small, nutritious flowering plants that flourished in the environment where they lived. They may also have used their curved tusks to dig through snow and eat plants that other foragers were unable to reach.
