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LOT 1519
Bronze Age Copper Flataxe
2ND MILLENNIUM B.C.
3 1/8 in. (127 grams, 81 mm).
With a gently curving blade and tapering profile. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a North Yorkshire, UK, collection formed since the 1980s; thence by descent.
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