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Sold for (Inc. bp): £41,600
.jpg "Attic Red-Figure Bell Krater with Drunken Male Revellers Attributed to the Kadmos Painter")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £32,500
.jpg "Roman Published Terracotta Oil Lamp with Fighting Gladiators")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £15,600
.jpg "Roman Marble Head of Hercules Wearing the Nemean Lion Skin")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,800
.jpg "The Anglesey Romano-British Marble Head of a Celtic Warrior")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £7,150
Sold for (Inc. bp): £3,120
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,100
.jpg "Medieval Decorated He who loves from the heart, gives with a good heart Posy Boxwood Comb")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £9,100
.jpg "Medieval Limoges Gilt Christ Crowned on the Cross")
.jpg "Medieval Gold Heraldic Signet Ring with Goat")
.jpg "Stone Age Trossencourt Grey Knapped Flint Handaxe")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £390
With cortex to the tip and flaked butt, old inked inscription 'Troussencourt'. 258 grams, 12.5 cm
Found Troussencourt, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.
Found Troussencourt, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.
.jpg "Superb Stone Age Dordogne Toffee-Brown Knapped Flint Ficron Bifacial Handaxe")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £715
Cordiform with large residue of cortex at the butt. 314 grams, 12.9 cm
Found Dordogne, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.17, for type.
Found Dordogne, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.17, for type.
.jpg "Large Stone Age Somme White Knapped Flint Handaxe")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
With curved outline to the tip, broad butt. 418 grams, 15 cm
Found in the Somme Region, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.1, for type.
Found in the Somme Region, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.1, for type.
.jpg "Stone Age Somme Grey Speckled White Knapped Flint Handaxe")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £650
With broad rounded butt, D-shaped in section, some cortex at butt. 210 grams, 10.5 cm
Found in the Somme Region, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.12, for type.
Found in the Somme Region, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.12, for type.
.jpg "Stone Age Somme Grey Speckled White Knapped Flint Axehead")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Narrow body with broad butt; old collector's label to one side 'Hache Taillée / en silex patine blanche / L.13cm - Neolithique / Somme. 8000 à 3000 AJC / Homo-sapiens-sapiens'. 147 grams, 12.7 cm
Found in the Somme Region, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.4, for type.
Found in the Somme Region, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.4, for type.
.jpg "Attractive Stone Age Dordogne Orange-Brown Chalcedony Bifacially Worked Handaxe")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Ovate cleaver with small portion of cortex to the butt. 332 grams, 12 cm
Found Dordogne, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, 1.9, for type.
Found Dordogne, France.
From an old French collection.
Ex Norfolk private collection.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, collector.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, 1.9, for type.
.jpg "Exceptionally Large Stone Age Knapped Flint Axehead")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,235
Square in section with broad rounded butt and only slightly narrower tip, polished, some cortex remaining. 2.05 kg, 33 cm
From the property of Mr O.S., a late Suffolk, UK, gentleman, who acquired at auction from the 1960s.
Cf. Madsen, A.P., Antiquités Préhistoriques du Danemark, Copenhagen, 1872, pl.26, 1.
From the property of Mr O.S., a late Suffolk, UK, gentleman, who acquired at auction from the 1960s.
Cf. Madsen, A.P., Antiquités Préhistoriques du Danemark, Copenhagen, 1872, pl.26, 1.
.jpg "Large Stone Age Danish Knapped Flint Dagger")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £4,680
With lentoid-section shank, leaf-shaped blade. 451 grams, 27 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.206.
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.206.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
Square-butted elongated trapezoid, unpolished mottled brown flint, square in section tapering to a curved cutting edge. 446 grams, 19 cm
Ex J. Shaul collection, 2000s.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.5, for type.
Ex J. Shaul collection, 2000s.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord MacAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 4.5, for type.
Sold for (Inc. bp): £338
In amber and grey-coloured flint, bifacially knapped with convex cutting edge, slender tapering profile with squared sides and butt; old inked collector's reference 'OMT' to edge. 150 grams, 18 cm
Ex J. Shaul collection, 2000s.
Cf. Madsen, A.P., Antiquités Préhistoriques du Danemark, Copenhagen, 1872, pl.26, 1.
Ex J. Shaul collection, 2000s.
Cf. Madsen, A.P., Antiquités Préhistoriques du Danemark, Copenhagen, 1872, pl.26, 1.
.jpg "Massive Stone Age Happisburgh Type Knapped Flint Handaxe")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £975
Reputedly one of the largest recorded Happisburgh-type handaxes ever found, a serious collector's piece from the site of the oldest known stone tools in the UK and North West Europe; a proto-handaxe of Wymer's Type C with a large amount of cortex in situ, tip crudely shaped with minimal removal. 1 kg, 15.3 cm
Found Walcott, near Happisburgh, Norfolk, UK, by John Craven in 2018.
Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.NMS-6A4F0A.
See Wymer, J.J., The Lower Palaeolithic Occupation of Britain, Salisbury, 1999.
Found Walcott, near Happisburgh, Norfolk, UK, by John Craven in 2018.
Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.NMS-6A4F0A.
See Wymer, J.J., The Lower Palaeolithic Occupation of Britain, Salisbury, 1999.
.jpg "Large Stone Age Happisburgh Type Knapped Flint Handaxe")
Sold for (Inc. bp): £1,235
A serious collector's piece from the site of the oldest known stone tools in the UK and North West Europe; possibly of Wymer's Type C, worked around a fossil in the flint; on the reverse, a fossil sponge inclusion. 566 grams, 11.4 cm
Found Happisburgh, Norfolk, UK, by John Craven in 2019.
Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.NMS-E4FF9A.
See Wymer, J.J., The Lower Palaeolithic Occupation of Britain, Salisbury, 1999.
Found Happisburgh, Norfolk, UK, by John Craven in 2019.
Accompanied by a copy of the British Museum's Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) report no.NMS-E4FF9A.
See Wymer, J.J., The Lower Palaeolithic Occupation of Britain, Salisbury, 1999.
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