Carved with soft facial features and carefully executed cosmetic lines around the eye, earring, and carefully detailed duplex wig with gently wavy curls; likely from the Ramesside Period; mounted on a custom-made stand.

Modelled in the round with a muscular nude body, his club resting on his shoulder and the hair dressed in rows of tight, close-set curls underneath the Nemean lionskin hood with cloak billowing over his left arm, the paws tied across his chest; mounted on a custom-made display stand.

Carved head of a prepubescent worshipper of Isis, with soft facial features, long nose, small downturned mouth, heavy-lidded eyes, the whole giving the face a sombre or mournful appearance; the hair textured to indicate a short cut and combed forward across the scalp, sidelock above the right ear; mounted on a 16th century carved breccia upper body with leather cuirass and pteruges to right shoulder, cloak draped across the shoulders and fastened at the clavicle on the right side with a disc-brooch; socle base; some restoration.

Modelled in the round and originally part of a monumental statue, the naturalistic right foot encased in a trochades leather sandal with median reversed tongue secured with side straps and thick looped laces; the thick platform sole slightly curved, toes and nails well defined; mounted on a substantial custom-made display stand.

Modelled in the half-round, nude with eyelids half-closed in sleep; a drapery partly covering the head and wrapping around the lower body under the hips; the hairstyle similar to those of the Antonine Dynasty, the peaceful face supported by the hands and the ear pierced to accept an earring; iron reinforcing rod to the feet and the right arm's armilla a later replacement; upper head restored in Parian marble.

An imposing panel divided to four sections by a central cross on a stepped pedestal, the lower and upper arm with branch-like extensions; the upper quadrants with a circlet surrounding a palm tree-shaped motif; each lower quadrant with a bird in profile facing back; mounted on a custom-made display stand.

Carved skull on a short neck with musculature and blood vessels; mandible in place with some teeth in sockets, wisps of hair adhering to the dome of the skull; one zygomatic bone partly absent; square-section socle base.

Carved in the half-round head of a Bodhisattva (probably Maitreya) with fine detailing to the arched brow, aquiline nose, neat moustache and full lips; the eyes heavily lidded, urna to the forehead, long open lobes to the ears; the hair in multi-stranded curling locks gathered into an ushnisha with brow-band below; heavily cleaned, conserved, and mounted on a custom-made stand; supplied with original old wooden base with collector's label: 'Head of Bodhisattva / Fine grain schist / Gandhara, Northwest Pakistan / 4th century'.

Knapped flint scraper with retouched edge. 153 grams, 79 mm



Found Peyzac le Moustier, Dordogne, France. Ex mid 20th century French collection. From a Leicestershire, UK, collection. Accompanied by a copy of a previous illustrated catalogue page.

Small implement with flattened underside; with an old inked inscription: '4.SS.1120.C. Twydall'. 88 grams, 70 mm



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.

With narrow butt and rounded cutting edge, old inked legend 'Cissbury Vineyard 7/4/73'. 152 grams, 12.3 cm



Found Cissbury Vineyard, Sussex, UK, 1st April 1973. Ex an important Cambridgeshire collection by descent. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.

With a flat underside and some cortex showing on the domed upper face; with an old inked inscription: '1.1330 Twydall'. 78 grams, 63 mm



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.

With lentoid section and long curved cutting edge; collector's inked number '57'. 175 grams, 14.7 cm



Found Southern Denmark. Ex Sherman collection. From the Britton collection, USA. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.

Biconvex in section with large rounded butt and narrow tip (absent). 1 kg, 17 cm



Found Northern Sahara, North Africa. From the British art market in the 1970s-1980s. Acquired via inheritance, 1988. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.

Cobble flaked for use as a chopper, with indistinct inked letter, modern label 'Fontsome' and '11'. 177 grams, 82 mm



Found Fontsorbes, Haute Garonne, France. Acquired on the UK art market in the 1970s. From the collection of famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023), formed in the 1980s-1990s. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.

Two with applied collector's label 'La Gravette' and identifier 'R' and 'T'. 103 grams total, 68-71 mm



Found Gravette, Dordogne, France. Acquired on the UK art market in the 1970s. From the collection of famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023), formed in the 1980s-1990s. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.

The Gravettian tools making culture is named after the type site of Gravette, Dordogne, France, each has clear intricate re-touch.

Irregular discoid scraper with long cutting edge; supplied with a custom-made stand. 52 grams, 75 mm (76 grams total, 95 mm including stand)



Found Air Mountains, Mauritania, Northern Sahara, North Africa. Acquired on the British art market. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.

With pointed butt and broad curved cutting edge; even chocolate-brown patination, butt chipped. 602 grams, 20 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.

Including flint scrapers and a small cleaver. 162 grams total, 23-66 mm



Found on various UK sites since 1974. Property of an Essex collector.

Substantial cordiform handaxe with remains of the cortex to one face; old inked findspot inscription 'Wanel'. 564 grams, 15 cm



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