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Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,150
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,150
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,420
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,380
Sold for (Inc. bp): £36,400
Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,050
Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,700
Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,700
Sold for (Inc. bp): £23,400
Sold for (Inc. bp): £16,900
Sold for (Inc. bp): £11,700
Comprising twenty tools, including knives, scrapers and cores. 300 grams total, 46-83 mm

From the Tenera Region, of South Central Sahara.
From a private French collection formed in the 1960s-1970s.

Comprising of two slender knapped stone axes, with a large pecked type (spalled from cutting edge) and two ground pestle or similar implements. 1.07 kg total, 5.2-18 cm

UK gallery, early 2000s.

Lot No. 1242
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Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Composed of scrapers, blades and other implements. 542 grams total, 36-80 mm

Acquired on the UK art market.
Property of a Ruislip, UK, gentleman, by inheritance.

Mixed group including: small blade core, small scrapers (3) and two small implements; with two replica bifacially knapped lance points of American origin. 254 grams total, 2.6-12 mm

London, UK, collection, 1990s.
Property of a North London gentleman.

Inscribed in black ink to the reverse: 'PLAZAC / DORDOGNE'. 233 grams, 11 cm

Found Plazac, Dordogne, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk, UK, private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.

Comprising mostly fragments of pecked and ground stone axes, with part of a large knapped and polished flint type; this likely to be of Scandinavian origin. 1 kg total, 6.6-17.5 cm

UK gallery, early 2000s.

Knapped, with a bulbous head and slender tapering butt. 307 grams, 13.6 cm

From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk, UK, private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.

Formed on a keeled flake with trimming at edges forming crude scraping elements and a boring point; with inked collection number: 'Upnor 42'. 164 grams, 75 mm

Found Upnor, Kent, UK.
Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915.
Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections.
Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis.
Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK.

Cleaver-shaped with rounded butt. 584 grams, 16.6 cm

Discovered in 1967 at Erg Belfelfoul, Algeria - Acheulian industry of the Sahara.
From an old Hamburg, Germany collection.

Formed bifacially on a thick core of roughly triangular cross-section tapering from a finely formed convex point to a broad and thick butt, in white calcined flint; with inked inscription: 'LONG DOWN HALNAKER 1957'. 500 grams, 15 cm

Found Long Down, Halnaker Quarry, Boxgrove, West Sussex, UK, in 1957.
Property of Mr A.B., an American collector.

Formed on a thick irregular flake with one edge trimmed; with inked collection number: '1413 / TWYDALL'. 375 grams, 11.3 cm

Found Twydall, Kent, UK.
Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915.
Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections.
Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis.
Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK.

Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall.

Showing well defined bulb of percussion, with edges retouched to form a smoothly curved scraper; with inked 'La Pojouderic / 11183' find spot note. 44 grams, 70 mm

Found La Pojouderic, France.
French private collection.

Accompanied by a copy of the French cultural passport no.226793.

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