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LOT 2531
Very Large Cut Natural Unpolished Fossilised Tree Trunk Slice
TRIASSIC PERIOD, 251-199 MILLION YEARS B.P.
12 1/8 in. (1.81 kg, 30.8 cm).
Thick section of agatized wood showing some bark detailing on the outer edges. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Madagascar.
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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LOT 2531
Very Large Cut Natural Unpolished Fossilised Tree Trunk Slice
Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
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Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Epoch, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £78
Restrung, using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius spherical bone beads. 148 grams, 62 cm
From a UK collection formed in the 1980s. 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. -
2 Kg of Rose Quartz Fragments
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Large quantity of pale pink rose quartz chips. 2 kg total, 1 - 30 mm
Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Fossil Euomphaloceras Ammonite
Late Cretaceous Period, circa 100-66 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £46
Euomphaloceras cunningtoni with prominent protrusions on all outer ribs, old inked collector's notes '209' and 'Euomphaloceras Cunningtoni ?'. 830 grams, 13 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.