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LOT 1533
French Stone Age Mousterian Flint Point
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, MOUSTERIAN CIRCA 150,000-60,000 B.P
3 1/2 in. (53 grams, 89 mm).
Lozengiform in plan with broad pointed butt; inked legend 'Mainxe / 10 / [?]-4-68'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Mainxe, France, 1 April 1968.
From the private collection of famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023).
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Made by Neanderthals.
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