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LOT 2931
Danish Stone Age Knapped Thick-Butted Polished Axehead
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6,000 B.P.
5 3/8 in. (190 grams, 13.5 cm).
Rectangular-section shank flaring to a broad cutting edge, square butt; a handwritten label reading 'Dr. A.E.Peake coll., Danish Neolithic axe' [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the collection of Dr A.E.Peake.
From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s.
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LOT 2931
Danish Stone Age Knapped Thick-Butted Polished Axehead
Estimate £120 - 170€140 - 200 (for guidance only)$160 - 230 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Rectangular-shaped in plan and plano-convex in profile, with rounded ends. 12.8 grams, 53.5 mm
Found Icklingham, Suffolk, UK. From a private collection. -
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Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
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Ex UK gallery, early 2000s. -
Libyan Desert Glass Blade
Neolithic Period, circa 6000 B.P.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Formed as a slightly curved, slender triangular blade with a rounded butt. 1.65 grams, 42.8 mm
Acquired on the UK art market. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
Libyan desert glass formed approximately 29 million years ago when an intense, high-energy cosmic event instantly melted quartz-rich desert sand in the Sahara, which then rapidly cooled into high-purity silica glass.
