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LOT 2625
Very Large Selenite Satin Spar Wand
14 1/2 in. (334 grams, 37 cm).
A very large section of twinned crystal wand. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceEx Mineral Imports, London, UK.
Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK.
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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. -
Historic British Mineral Specimen Collection
Sold for (Inc. bp): £20
Comprising: volcanic ash from Borrowdale, Cumberland; hornblende from Sutherland; granite-aplite from Devon; and luxullianite; three with old labels. 2 kg total, 10.3-11.4 cm
Found at various sites in the UK. Ex Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Quartz and Pyrite Mineral Specimen
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
An irregular specimen with white quartz and bright pyrite. 175 grams, 74 mm
From Cornwall, UK. 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.
