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LOT 2379
Very Large Glazed Extinct Fossil Shark's Tooth Display
EOCENE PERIOD, CIRCA 56-33 MILLION YEARS B.P.
39 5/8 in. (12.9 kg total, 1 m wide).
A magnificent display of Otodus obliquus teeth arranged in circles with the sizes of the teeth getting larger towards the edge; set in a glazed wooden frame with fabric backing. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom a Cambridgeshire, UK, collection.
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Insects in Copal
Carboniferous Period, circa 3 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £59
The terminal of a droplet containing five flying insects and other inclusions, repaired. 3.34 grams, 80 mm
Private collection, Essex. -
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Cut and Polished Agate Crystal Geode Half Group [8]
Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Comprising eight dyed geode halves, each with an exposed crystal-lined internal cavity. 672 grams total, 58-74 mm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Woolly Mammoth Bone Bead Necklace String
Pleistocene Period, 2.6 million-11,700 years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
Restrung using recently polished Mammuthus primigenius bone beads. 207 grams, 59 cm
Ex West country, UK, collection, 1990s onwards.
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.
