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LOT 2289
Woolly Rhinoceros Juvenile Milk Tooth
DEVENSIAN PERIOD, CIRCA 110,000-12,000 YEARS B.P.
2 1/2 in. (33.9 grams, 63 mm).
Comprising well-defined roots and light cream to grey enamel. [No Reserve]
ProvenancePerma frost of Siberia.
From a Netherlands collector in the 2020s.
From a private collection.
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Morton Gneiss Plate Sections
Circa 3.5 billion years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
Comprising three rectangular sections of grey pink and black medium to coarse-grained biotite-quartz-plagioclase gneiss with polished upper face, each with wooden backing and one cracked. approx. 84 kg total, 85 x 58 cm each
Canadian Shield, Minnesota River Valley, Southwestern Minnesota, USA. with Phillips, New York, 3 June 1995, no.81. Private collection, Florida, acquired at the above sale. with Sotheby’s, New York, 28 April 2021, no.27 (est. $2,500–3,500).
The world’s oldest known rocks come from the Canadian Shield area of North America. Among the most ancient is the present material, Morton Gneiss at approximately 3.5 billion years old believed to be part of Earth’s first planetary crust. The swirls and layers are a result of metamorphism that incurred when the original volcanic rock was buried to tremendous depths. -
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Group of Fifty [50] Rock Crystal Point Display Specimens
Sold for (Inc. bp): £33
Comprising fifty prismatic points, most with pyramidal terminations. 1.34 kg total, 39-69 mm
From Brazil. Ex Mineral Imports, London, UK. Gregory, Bottley & Lloyd (Gregory's), Harwich, UK. -
Large Polished Fossil Orthoceras Specimen Collection
Devonian Period, circa 417-354 million years B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising three polished teardrop-shaped specimens. 470 grams total, 14-20.5 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.
