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LOT 2396
Aboriginal Part Polished Stone Axehead
AUSTRALIA, 20TH CENTURY A.D.
5 1/4 in. (680 grams, 13.2 cm).
Lentoid in section D-shaped jade axehead; Ngemba culture of New South Wales. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From New South Wales, Australia.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.
AA6; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
Accompanied by a copy of an illustrated catalogue information sheet.
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