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LOT 2399
Aboriginal Stone Artefact Group
AUSTRALIA, 20TH CENTURY A.D.
2 1/8 - 3 5/8 in. (520 grams total, 54-92 mm).
Comprising: two white silicified claystone scrapers from Andamooka, S. Australia; a diorite chopper from Parramatta River, Sydney, S.W. Australia; a part-polished axehead from Brewarrina, N.S.W., Australia. [4, No Reserve]
Provenance
From New South Wales, Australia.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.15, 21, 30, 31; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.
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