Natural history on the cheap

Dinosaur teeth, the huge prehistoric jaws of a shark, a 180-million-year-old horseshoe crab and a humpback whale skeleton once owned by the legendary circus entrepreneur P.T. Barnum went on sale Thursday in Manhattan. . .

On Thursday, about 200 people sat amid the fossils, skeletons, tusks, skulls — and empty seats — on the main floor of the cavernous red brick Seventh Regiment Armory on Park Avenue.

Bidding was brisk and there were bargains galore at the auction's opening session, with many items failing to reach their low estimates listed in the auction catalog.

From the LA Times. We posted on the sale beforehand here.

Posted by David on June 26, 2004 2:02 PM