Lot 166

Six Woolly Mammoth & Woolly Rhino Specimens

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Six Woolly Mammoth & Woolly Rhino Specimens
Six Woolly Mammoth & Woolly Rhino Specimens
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Six Woolly Mammoth & Woolly Rhino Specimens

Estimate: $600 - $900

Starting Bid: $250

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by Artemis Fine Arts
June 25, 2026 9:00 AM MDT
Live Auction
686 S. Taylor Avenue
Suite 108
Louisville, CO, US 80027

Arctic, Siberia and Alaska, Peistocene Epoch, ca. 100,000 to 10,000 years ago. A compelling natural history group uniting five specimens from two of the Pleistocene's most iconic megafauna. The woolly rhino tooth (Coelodonta antiquitatis) is the anchor of the lot, a well-preserved cheek tooth displaying the characteristic lateral compression, tall crown, and widely spaced transverse ridges of this formidable Ice Age browser, mounted on a wooden base for display. Two fragments of fossilized woolly mammoth (Mammuthus primigenius) tusk accompany it, their cross-sections revealing the layered, striated ivory structure that distinguishes proboscidean tusk from bone, the warm amber and ochre mineralization lending each piece a geological beauty entirely its own. Three samples of woolly mammoth hair complete the group, two recovered from Yakutia, Siberia, and one from the skull of a mammoth recovered along the Kobuk River, Alaska, each preserved in display packaging with provenance documentation. Hair survival from Pleistocene specimens is exceedingly rare, the result of permafrost conditions that suspended decomposition for tens of thousands of years, and lends the lot an intimacy that bone and tusk alone cannot. Together these five specimens offer a rare cross-section of Ice Age life from opposite ends of the mammoth steppe. Size of largest (tusk fragment): 3.8" W x 7.8" H (9.7 cm W x 19.8 cm H)

Publication: This is an ESA antique exempt piece of ivory and cannot be sold internationally or to anyone residing in the states of California, Hawaii, Illinois, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, and Washington.

Provenance: private Hagar collection, Wildwood, Missouri, USA

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Item # 200644

  • Condition: Fair. All are fragments with losses. Tusks and tooth have all been polished

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Bid Increments
From: To: Increments:
$0 $299 $25
$300 $999 $50
$1,000 $1,999 $100
$2,000 $4,999 $250
$5,000 $9,999 $500
$10,000 $19,999 $1,000
$20,000 $49,999 $2,500
$50,000 $99,999 $5,000
$100,000 $199,999 $10,000
$200,000 + $20,000