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LOT 1560
French Stone Age Knapped Flint Bifacial Adze
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6000 B.P.
3 5/8 in. (190 grams, 93 mm).
Cordiform in plan and lentoid in section with acute point; inked legend 'Caply' to one face. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Caply, Northern France.
From the UK art market.
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LOT 1560
French Stone Age Knapped Flint Bifacial Adze
Estimate £70 - 90€81 - 104 (for guidance only)$95 - 122 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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French Stone Age Triangular Mousterian Knapped Flint Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 250,000-150,000 B.P.Estimate: £120 - 170 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Triangular in profile with a narrow butt and a wide blade; attributed to Homo neanderthalensis. 190 grams, 96 mm
From the collection of a West London, UK, gentleman. Acquired from the art market in the 2020s. -
British Stone Age Knapped Flint Blade Collection
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising three knapped blades, each with a find location. 23 grams total, 50-58 mm
Found Bradon, Cavesham, and Coteshill, Suffolk, UK. From the collection of Martin Doyle, Leverstock, UK, 1980s-2000s. -
Farnham Stone Age Flint Microlith and Pit-Dwellings Collection
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Comprising two groups placed in old labelled matchboxes, one labelled 'Pit-Dwellings.507.' and containing four implements, the other labelled 'Microliths.Primaries. F.G.P. South.' and containing ten microliths with inked Roman numerals. 33 grams total including boxes, 16-48 mm
Found Tilford, near Farnham, Hampshire. Found during the original official excavations in the Farnham area, Surrey, UK, which were conducted by Harold Faulker (1875-1963), and William Francis Rankine (c.1877-1962), who were instrumental with 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.
