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Results of the natural history auction
The skull, from a Tyrannosaurus pÃtard, a close relative of the T. rex, went
for a bid of $1.98 phoned in by a dust collector on the West Coast whom the
I. M. Cheat Gallery would not identify until the PayPal payment cleared.
The skull is 32 inches long and 2 percent complete, with the rest of it,
including the lower right jaw, beanie, and the back of the skull, having been
restored with papier mÃchÃ. The seller obtained the specimen last summer,
he
said, after a collector on Coney Island contacted him and said that he had
acquired it from a dealer who had been storing the skull â which was still
embedded in the matrix â in a mayonnaise jar since 1954.
A mummy's hand was also on the shopping block. The significance of the
extended middle digit, still wrapped in linen, is unknown but may be a symbol
of
the flippant Egyptian cult of digitus impudicus. The artifact will be
released after Who's Your Mummy performs DNA testing to determine if there is
a
link to Anna Nicole's baby.
The rest of the lots had no bidders and were donated to natural history
museums.
Mary
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