Edouard Latet - La Madelaine Stone Age Knife with Label

NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6,000 B.P.

4 in. (32.3 grams, 10.2 cm).

Triangular-section long-edged knife with old printed paper label '['C' monogram] [L]a Madelaine / Dordogne / 1863 France No.'. [No Reserve]

Provenance

Found by Edouard Latet, La Madeleine, Dordogne, France, 1863.
This is a very desired label from pretty much the founder of French Pre-History.
This knife was gifted to Haselmere Parish Priest, Charles Borelli (c.1914-2000) of Farnham; who was part of the Borelli family from Italy who emigrated from Lake Como in 1828 to set up the Borelli family watch and jewellery business; thence by family descent to his nephew.

Footnotes

Edouard Lartet, financed and helped by the Englishman Henry Christy, were the first systematic excavators of the site, starting in 1863. They published their findings in 1875 under the name of the Age of the Reindeer. Objects that were found at the La Madeleine site are distributed among a number of museums, including the Muséum de Toulouse, the Musée des Antiquités Nationales, St. Germain-en-Laye and the British Museum.

CONDITION

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Sought After Latet Label

LOT 2835