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LOT 1109
Danish Stone Age Neolithic Thin Butted Axe
DOLMAN PERIOD, 3700-3300 B.C.
6 1/2 in. (373 grams, 16.6 cm).
A finely polished axe with tapering square sides and convex cutting edge. this edge with contemporary re-working by knapping. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceAcquired 1980s.
French private collection before 2020.
Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher.
Cf. Glob, P. V., Danske Oldsager II, Yngre Stenalder, Copenhagen, 1952, no.113, for type.
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Lower Paleolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £52
A Twydall flint proto hand axe, bearing collector's handwritten inventory id. to one face '1801 Twydall'. 444 grams, 12.3 cm
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Danish Stone Age Neolithic Thin Butted Axe
Dolman Period, 3700-3300 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £156
A finely polished axe with tapering square sides and convex cutting edge. this edge with contemporary re-working by knapping. 373 grams, 16.6 cm
Fine condition.
Acquired 1980s. French private collection before 2020. Property of a Sussex, UK, teacher. -
Danish Neolithic Flint Axehead
4th millennium B.C.Estimate: £300 - 400 (‡+bp*)
Opening Bid: £150
A thin-butted wedge-shaped white flint axe head. 440 grams, 15.9 cm
Acquired early 1990s. Ex private American collection; thence by descent. Private Swiss collection since 1998.
