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LOT 2467
Polished Fossil Orthoceras Coaster Set
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 417-354 MILLION YEARS B.P.
3 5/8 in. (682 grams, 91 mm wide).
Comprising six circular coasters, the Orthoceras have been polished through the shell to reveal the calcite preserved inside and showing the dividing gas chambers known as suture patterns. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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LOT 2467
Polished Fossil Orthoceras Coaster Set
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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Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
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Bids: 4 | Current Bid: £45
Restrung, using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 150 grams total, 58 cm
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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. -
Collection of Extinct Fossilised Shark Teeth in Collector's Display Box
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Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Large collection of shark teeth, including Odontapsis, Lamna oblirua, Charcharodon auriculatus, Striatolamia, and others; most with an inked collector's number or a numbered sticker. 973 grams total, 30.5 x 24 cm including box
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Large Group of One Hundred and Thirty [130] Mixed Colour Topaz Pebbles Totalling 6,500 Carats
Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Large quantity of pale coloured topaz pebbles, including quartz and possibly some other specimens. 1.3 kg total, 11-52 mm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
