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LOT 2893
Farnham Stone Age Knapped Ovate Knife
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6,000 B.P.
2 1/4 in. (12.3 grams, 57 mm).
Scaphoid in plan with pencilled 'Water Lane 6' notation. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Water Lane, near Farnham, Surrey, UK.
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.
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LOT 2893
Farnham Stone Age Knapped Ovate Knife
Estimate £100 - 140€120 - 160 (for guidance only)$140 - 190 (for guidance only)
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Danish Type 1a Stone Age Knapped Flint Lanceolate Dagger
Neolithic Period, circa 4,400-4,050 B.P.Estimate: £400 - 600 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Biconvex in section with parallel edges and tapering ends. 53 grams, 17 cm
From an old Netherlands collection. Ex British private collection. From the private collection of a S.W. London, UK, gentleman. -
Farnham Stone Age Fishing Weight
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P. or laterEstimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Flat mudstone pebble with crazed surface, natural hole near one edge. 77.3 grams, 64 mm
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. -
African Very Large Homo Erectus Stone Age Handaxe
Palaeolithic Period, circa 1,000,000-300,000 B.P.Estimate: £150 - 200 (+bp*)
Bids: 10 | Current Bid: £74
Piriform in plan and biconvex in section with narrow point. 780 grams, 19.8 cm
Found Central Sahara. Ex old German collection of Dr J. Fehkhaber, formed in the 1970s.
