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LOT 2886
El Golea Algeria Stone Age Polished Axehead Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6000 B.P.
1 3/4 - 2 in. (144 grams total, 43-52 mm).
Comprising two rectangular with a broad cutting edge and a rounded butt, one triangular with a broad cutting edge and a rounded butt, one flat with widening cutting edge and some chips to the butt. [4, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound El Golea, Algeria.
Ex old German collection of Dr J. Fehkhaber, formed in the 1970s.
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LOT 2886
El Golea Algeria Stone Age Polished Axehead Group
Estimate £60 - 80€70 - 93 (for guidance only)$81 - 108 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Danish Stone Age Knapped Flint Sickle Group
Neolithic Period, circa 4,500-3,500 B.P.Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising two knabbed sickles with slender curved body and pointed ends. 55.5 grams total, 7.2-10.5 cm
Acquired as part of a collection of Danish Neolithic flint artefacts from a Swedish auction house. From the private collection of a S.W. London, UK, gentleman. -
Polecats Farnham Stone Age Knapped Fishing Weight
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
D-shaped in section with an ellipsoid hole at one end, cortex to one face and within the hole. 183 grams, 73 mm
Found Polecats, near Farnham, Sussex, UK, 2nd August 1961(?). Found during the original official excavations in the Farnham area, Surrey, UK, which were conducted by Harold Falkner (1875-1963) and William Francis Rankine (c.1877-1962), who were instrumental in the excavation works and pit dwellings at sites including Six Bells, Frensham, Tilford, Thursley and Bagshot, and Waverley, amongst others, at and near Farnham in the 1930s and 1940s. Much of the material is now in the prestigious Farnham museum. The present part of the collection having been gifted to their good friend and 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. -
Libyan Desert Glass Blade
Neolithic Period, circa 6000 B.P.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Thin and faceted with parallel sides, rounded butt; tip absent. 2.47 grams, 46 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.
