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LOT 2367
Reptile Footprints in Matrix
PERMIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 299-298 MILLION YEARS B.P.
7 1/8 in. (227 grams, 18 cm).
The matrix containing three Salichnium decessus type fossilised amphibian footprints; an information sticker on the reverse. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Saint Afrique, Aueyron, France.
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.
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Mixed Crystal and Mineral Specimen Group
Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Comprising: sphalerite from Brownley Hills Mine, Nenthead, Cumbria; calcite on fluorite from Fall Hill Quarry, Derbyshire; chkalovite, analcime and sodalite from Tassaq West, Illimaussaq, Greenland; chalcedony from Lyme Regis Beach, Lyme Regis, Dorset; chrysocolla and malachite from Lumbumbashi, Zaire; botryoidal malachite from Lumbumbashi, Zaire; anatase on ankerite from Hendreqy, Glyn Ceiriog, Wales; calcite from Taff's Wells Quarry, Nr Cardiff, Wales; galena from Greystone Quarry, Lezant, Cornwall; orthoclase from Melbur China Clay Pit, St Austell, Cornwall. 1.04 kg total, 38-98 mm
From the private collection of a Cornish, UK, gentleman. -
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Deep Purple Amethyst Crystal Cluster Formation
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,300
A cut section of beautifully layered amethyst crystals with orange druse, polished stalactite formations on the field formed of green celadonite, red-brown agate and white quartz; mounted on a custom-made display stand. 10 kg total, 53 cm high including stand
From Artigas, Uruguay. Property of a London lady. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £117
Restrung, using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 156 grams, 60 cm
London, UK, collection, 1990s.
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.
