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LOT 1694
French Stone Age Neanderthal Levallois Knapped Point - Ex Boucher-de-Perthes
MIDDLE PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, 150,000-60,000 B.P.
2 1/2 in. (18.5 grams, 63 mm).
Triangular flint point labelled 'Celtique Trouve avec des os et de vases. Toubiere de la Somme’ (Celtic, Found with bones and vases, peat beds of the Somme). [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound by Boucher-des-Perthes in the 1800s.
Ex Jacques Boucher de Crèvecœur de Perthes (1788-1868), sometimes referred to as Boucher de Perthes.
Ex Sir Arthur John Evans (1851–1941), British archaeologist and son of Sir John Evans (1823-1908).
Ex Henry Dewey (1876–1965), a prominent British geologist and archaeologist who made seminal contributions to the study of the Palaeolithic period.
Ex R Richard Widdowson, a well-known UK-based antiquities specialist who owned the gallery 'Ancient Times' in Scarborough in Southern England.
Ex J Weston Smith.
Accompanied by an illustrated envelope and two collector's information cards.
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LOT 1694
French Stone Age Neanderthal Levallois Knapped Point - Ex Boucher-de-Perthes
Sold for (Inc. bp): £546
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Farnham Very Large Stone Age Knapped Flint Pick
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
Roughly triangular in section with broad point; much cortex remaining. 713 grams, 21 cm
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.
Farnham district is one of the most interesting prehistoric regions in England, and has been visited by a succession of prehistoric peoples from Palaeolithic times onwards. Along the southern slope of the Farnham valley are three gravel terraces, which are famous prehistorically and have yielded large quantities of flint implements and bones of prehistoric animals, notably the mammoth. In prehistoric times, the chalk deposits played an important role in attracting settlers, as they contained rich layers of flint nodules used to make implements. The Farnham Gravels have been an abundant source of Palaeolithic finds, most prominent being hand axes. The axes differ in type, and each type is associated with a cultural phase of the Palaeolithic period. Types similar to these are found in similar deposits in the Somme valley and in many English valley gravels. Flint mining was also carried out by the Neolithic folk. Polished axes and leaf forms, arrowheads and knives, or possibly lance heads, are characteristic of the Neolithic flint work. -
African Stone Age Arrowhead Straightner
Neolithic Period, circa 6000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Discoid implement with a central groove on one side. 269 grams, 78 mm
From Niger, Africa. Ex old German collection formed in the 1970s by Dr J Fehkhaber. Acquired on the European art market. -
Stone Age Tool and Core Collection
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £13
Including leaf-shaped blades, scrapers, burin and other types. 406 grams total, 70-92 mm
From a UK private collection since at least 1946. Property of a West London, UK, gentleman.
