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LOT 2439
Polished Fossil Orthoceras Column
DEVONIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 400 MILLION YEARS B.P.
8 1/2 in. (1.34 kg, 21.5 cm).
Comprising variously sized polished Orthoceras sp. specimens on a textured freestanding matrix. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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LOT 2439
Polished Fossil Orthoceras Column
Estimate £40 - 60€46 - 70 (for guidance only)$54 - 81 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Fossil Lobster and London Clay Crab Group
Cretaceous Period, circa 100-66 million years B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising: the body of a crab with remnants of the front claw; a large section of a fossilised lobster. 184 grams total, 5-11.3 cm
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. -
Fossil Mioplosus Fish in Matrix
Eocene Period, circa 56-33 million years B.P.Estimate: £30 - 40 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
On a rectangular matrix and showing good detail on the spine and fins. 709 grams, 20.2 cm
From Green River formation, Wyoming, USA. From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Restrung, using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 155 grams, 58 cm
Ex Ancient Art Shop, Windsor, UK, 1990s. Ex private West County, UK, collection.
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.
