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LOT 1571
French Stone Age Mousterian Flint Racloir
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, MOUSTERIAN CIRCA 150,000- 60,000 B.P
3 3/4 in. (66 grams, 94 mm).
Very well formed example with neat retouch, cortex to trailing edge; inked legend 'Plazac / Dord)'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound in the Dordogne, France.
Acquired on the European art market.
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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Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £7
Plano-convex in section with inked legend '2 PB. Twydall 1202.A'. 35 grams, 64 mm
Found Twydall, Kent, UK, 1912-1915. Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915. Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections. Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis. Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK. Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
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Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 78 grams total, 20-41 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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Triangular in form and plano-convex in section with scooped upper edge and two drilled eye-holes. 2.27 kg, 25 cm
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