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LOT 2778
Purple Amethyst Crystal Obelisk Set
2 3/8 - 2 1/2 in. (124 grams total, 62-65 mm).
Comprising three obelisks with facetted edges. [3, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Brazil.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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Polished 'Orca' Agate
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
A freestanding display, polished to enhance the mimicking patterns and colours of an orca. 786 grams, 10.4 cm
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Boxed Realgar Orpiment Mineral Specimen Group [24]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Each specimen set on a foam insert within a labelled box. 387 grams total, 20-31 mm
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Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 188 grams, 61 cm
Ex West country, UK, collection, 2000s.
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 couldn't get to.
