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LOT 2913
Farnham Stone Age Knapped Curved Sickle Knife
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6,000 B.P.
2 7/8 in. (20.7 grams, 73 mm).
Lunate in plan and triangular in section with pointed end. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound 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.
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LOT 2913
Farnham Stone Age Knapped Curved Sickle Knife
Estimate £80 - 100€93 - 116 (for guidance only)$108 - 135 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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County Antrim Stone Age Polished Handaxe Blade
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Tongue-shaped with a tapering blade and a flat butt, hadwritten label reading 'Coll. Rev. E.R.Buick, LL.D., FRSAI, MRIA, 9 Culleybackey, (1905)' and 'Gortfad, near Portglenone, Co., Antrim, Ireland'. 165 grams, 68 mm
Found Gortfad, near Portglenone, Co Antrim, Ireland. From the collection of Rev.G.R.Buick LL.D., FRSAI, MRIA of Culley Backey, 1905. From the private collection of Peter Clayton, FCILIP, Dip, Arch, FSA, FRNS, Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, UK; formed since the late 1950s. -
London Stone Age Knapped and Polished Flint Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 6000 B.P.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Lntoid in section with narrow butt and broad curved edge; pencilled 'Yieusley' and other notations. 435 grams, 15 cm
Found Yieusley, Hillingdon, London, UK. From the collection of 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.
Farnham district is one of the most interesting prehistoric regions in England, and has been visited by a succession of prehistoric peoples from Palaeolithic times onwards. Along the southern slope of the Farnham valley are three gravel terraces, which are famous prehistorically and have yielded large quantities of flint implements and bones of prehistoric animals, notably the mammoth. In prehistoric times, the chalk deposits played an important role in attracting settlers, as they contained rich layers of flint nodules used to make implements. The Farnham Gravels have been an abundant source of Palaeolithic finds, most prominent being hand axes. The axes differ in type, and each type is associated with a cultural phase of the Palaeolithic period. Types similar to these are found in similar deposits in the Somme valley and in many English valley gravels. Flint mining was also carried out by the Neolithic folk. Polished axes and leaf forms, arrowheads and knives, or possibly lance heads, are characteristic of the Neolithic flint work. -
Fawcett Collection French Small Polished Axehead with Fawcett Monogram
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Tongue-shaped in plan with asymmetrical cutting edge; inked monogram and 'Moltot Normandy FR.35' legend. 40.9 grams, 48 mm
Found Normandy, France. Ex Dr Hugh Alderson Fawcett (1891-1982), a general practitioner and antiquarian who built up an important collection of ancient implements, weapons and ornaments. The present part of the collection having been 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.
