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Fine Tribal, Aboriginal Art & International Antiquities — Guy Earl-Smith & Antiquity

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Auction House:Guy Earl-Smith & AntiquityNumber of lots recorded:341
Sale Title:Fine Tribal, Aboriginal Art & International AntiquitiesLots with images:340
Auction Location:SydneyPrices available:84
Date:28-Mar-2010
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Fossilised Wood Polished Slab, Central Queensland, Australia 12 x 19 cm
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Fossilised Wood Polished Slab, exhibiting subtle pinkish-grey tones, Madagasca, 11 x 9 cm
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Fossil ammonite, Cleoniceras sp, mid Crelaceous (a 109 mya), Ambarimaninga, Mahajanga Province, Madagascar. Ammonites were abundant and diverse in the seas of the Mesozoic Era and they evolved very rapidly to produce numerous species and genera
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Fossil Fish Tooth in Matrix, Enchodus sp. Late Cetaceous - Eocene (a.65 - 37 mya), Khouribga Phosphate Beds, Khouribga, Morroco. Enchodus was a marine predator whose dorsal midline of the body carried large, bony plates.
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Two Giant Armadillo Body Armour Scutes, Glyptodon sp. Pleistocene (a 1.5 mya), Peace River, Wachulla, Polk County, Florida, USA. Glyptodon was a giant armadillo whose body was almost completely clad in a bony armour coat, which formed a head shield
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Woolly Mammoth Hair, Pleistocene (30,000-10,000 ya), Yakutia, Siberia. The woolly mammoth had a thick insulating coat adapted for the extreme climatic conditions of the glacial phases of the Pleistocene epoch (2 million-10,000 years ago
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Fossil Bivalves in Matrix, Freshwater Mussels, Eyrena tatye, Early Cretaceous (Aptian) (a. 125 -112mya), Bulldog Shales, Coober Pedy, South Australia, 8 x 6 cm
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Two Moon Rock Fragments, from the Lunar Meteorite 4483, in display box, 2 mm (2)
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Four Copal Amber Specimens, with Insect and Plant Inclusions. Up to 40,000 years old Madagascar, 4-7 cm (4)
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Fossil Brachiopod, Parispirifer bownockeri, Middle Devonian (380 mya) Silica Shale, Medusa limestone quarries, Sylvania, Lucas County, Ohio, USA. Brachiopods are exclusively marine animals with a body covered by a shell formed of two valves of unequal size
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Saltasaurus Egg Fragment, Late Cretaceous (83-79 my a), Salta Province, N.W. Argentina. Saltasaurus was a large, long necked, plant eating sauropod with bony armoured plates on its body. It had a small head, blunt teeth and a short thick tail.
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Two Fossil Shore Crabs, species indeterminate, Pliocene (5mya), North Queensland, Australia, 4 cm (2)
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Fossil Dinosaur Bone, Jurassic (a 140 rmya), Morrison Formation Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, USA. The Morrison Formation is the most prolific source of Jurassic dinosaurs in North America.
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Two Coprolite Specimens, Late Cretaceous (a 65 mya), Toolunga Calcilutite, Camarvon, Westem Australia, 5-8 cm (2), Australia
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Three Dastilbe Fossil Fish Plates, Cretaceous (120 mya), Santana, Araripe Plateau, N. E. Brazil. The great majority of living fishes are teledsteans, a group that has humble origins dating back to the age of the dinosaurs in the Triassic period
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Mundrabilla Meteorite Fragments, Mundrabilla, Nullarbor Plain, Western Australia, Australia, Iron. (Iicd) Medium octohedrite; band width 0.6 mm; Anomalous with sulphid and silicate inclusions (7.7% Ni), Approx. recovered weight: 17 tonnes
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A Fossil Fish Plate, Diplomystus dentatus, Eocene (40mya), Green River Shales locality, Lincoln County, Wyoming USA. The famous Green River Shells of Wyoming have yielded hundreds of different species of ray-finned fishes that lived in the Eocene Period
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Three Fossil Whale Teeth, Age: Miocene (25 -10 mya), Hawthorne Formation, South Carolina, USA, 3 cm
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Dinosaur Bone Polished Slab, Jurassic (a 140 mya), Morrison Formation, Colorado, Wyoming, Utah, USA. The Morrison Formation is the most prolific source of Jurassic dinosaurs in North America. Thousands of bones from many hundreds of individual dinosaur
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Elephant Bird Egg Shell, Aepyomis Maximus, Pleistocene recent (1.6 my a - 2000 ya), Tuaternary, South Madagascar. The ovoid eggs of these large extinct birds are sometimes found in sand dunes, the largest examples having a liquid capacity of 8.5 litre
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Moldavites Specimens, Near Jince (Bohemia), Czechoslovakia, 3 cm (2)
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Pyritised Fossil Ammonite, Jurassic (a, 160 mya), Volga River Region, Northem Caucasus, Russia. Ammonites were abundant and diverse in the seas of the Mesozoic Era and they evolved very rapidly to produce numerous species and genera.
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Pyritised Fossil Ammonite, Pleuroceras sp., Lower Jurassic (a.190 mya), Upper Pliensbachian, Germany. Ammonites were abundant and diverse in the seas of the Mesozoic era, and they evolved very rapidly to produce numerous species and genera.
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Two Fossil Ammonites, Perisphinctes sp. Mid Jurassic (a 180 -154 mya) Madagascar. The ammonites of the family of Perisphinctidea were distributed all over the world although they preferred warm seas before eventually dying out at the end of the Jurassic period
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Three Pyritised Fossil Ammonites, Rynchonella decorata, Late Jurassic, Germany. Ammonites were abundant and diverse in the seas of the Mesozoic Era and they evolved very rapidly to produce numerous species and genera.
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Dinosaur Tooth and Bone in Matrix, Edmontosaurus annectens, Upper Cretaceous (a 65 mya), Lance Creek, Niobrara County, Wyoming, USA. This large and heavily built duck-billed dinosaur was a plant# eater and may also have been partly aquatic.
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Therapod Dinosaur Tooth, Carcharodontosaurus Dsauros saharicus, Mid Cretaceous (Albian) (100mya), Continental Sandstone deposits, South of Taouz. K'Sar-es-Souk province. Kem-Kem basin, Moroccan Sahara.
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Pterosaur Tooth, Siroccopterys moroccensis, Mid Cretaceous (Albian), Continental Sandstone deposits, South of Taouz, K'Sar-es-Souk province, Kem-Kem basin, Moroccan Sahara, 3 cm
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Two Fossil Trilobites, Kainops invius & Paciphacops Cambelli, Lower Devonian (a 400 mya), Haragan Formation, Coal County, Oklahoma, USA. The trilobite (three-lobed) are an extinct form of marine organism ranging in size from 1 mm to 1m
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A Fine Dan Society Mask, of wood in classic diminutive form, the visage with fine features and pierced eyes, glossy patina and encrustations, Africa, 23 cm
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A Fine Dan Society Mask, of wood in classic diminutive form, the visage with fine features and pierced eyes, weathered patina and encrustations, Africa, 22 cm
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A Dogon Ancestor Sculpture, c.1940s, of wood in classic abstract male form, smooth glossy patina, Mali, 30 x 6 cm
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A Kotu Necklace, c. 20th Century, strung with red bakelite and metal beads, Harar, Ethiopia, 60 cm
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A Collection of African Trade Beads, c.20th century, temporarily strung, of polychrome glass, Mali, 58 cm
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A Kotu Necklace, c.20th Century, strung with cobalt blue glass and metal beads, Mali, 58 cm
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A Collection of African Trade Beads, temporarily strung, of black and white glass with one Dogon iron bead, Mali, 42 cm
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An Ethiopian Ritual Staff Terminal, c.19-20th Century, of iron decorated with linear stippled motifs, 15 x 11 cm
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An Ethiopian Processional Cross, of openwork wood decorated with incised motifs, 47 x 21 cm
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A Gugi Neckrest, of wood, decorated with metal and polychrome beads, with shell tassels, Ethiopia, 14 x 15 cm
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A Gugi Stool, of wood with metal bracket attached to one side, Ethiopia, 15 x 18.5 cm
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An Ethiopian Instruction Board, of wood, the narrow panel inscribed with Islamic script, black ink, Madrasa, 128 x 13 cm
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