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LOT 1505
French Stone Age 'Neanderthal' Handaxe
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 250,000-150,000 B.P.
5 in. (5 3/4 in.) (274 grams, 12.6 cm (313 grams total, 14.5 cm including stand)).
Cordiform in profile and very well made from a colourful dense sandstone/quartzite material; mounted on a custom-made display stand. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Ermonville, Oise, France.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 2020s.
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Stone Age Lozenge-Shaped Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £85
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and piriform flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 95 grams total, 21-42 mm
UK gallery, early 2000s.
Similar specimens of arrowheads have been found in the Eastern Sahara Region of Abu Tartur Plateau. Most of the arrowheads came from the El Jarar Neolithic, c. 7700-7300 B.P. (c.6500-6100 B.C.). Other parallels occur in the region of Kharga Oasis. -
French Stone Age 'Homo Heidelbergensis' Colourful Flint Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 600,000-350,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
Cordate in profile with deep orange, yellow and purple glossy patina; mounted on a custom-made stand. 239 grams, 99 mm (282 grams total, 12.1 cm including stand)
From the collection of Jean-Claude Debenne (1936-2020), an amateur prehistorian and former member of the French Society of Prehistory and the Prehistoric Association of the South-West; also a Honorary Member of the Geological Club of Ile-de-France; his collection of flints formed between the 1950s and 1990s, and coming from Ile-de-France, Oise, Val-d’Oise and the Dordogne.
Attributed to Homo Heidelbergensis. -
Stone Age Tenerian Green Jasper Knife
Tenerian Culture, circa 7,500-4,500 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Lentoid in section and tongue-shaped in plan with broad butt. 98.8 grams, 99 mm
Found South Central Sahara. Acquired on the UK art market in the 2020s.
