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LOT 1543
French Stone Age Mousterian Flint Racloir Drill
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, MOUSTERIAN CIRCA 150,000-60,000 B.P
3 1/4 in. (86 grams, 84 mm).
Very well formed example with neat retouch leading to a sharp point to form a drill/piercer; with old label 'Grattoir Percoir'. [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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