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]

Provenance

Found 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.

CONDITION

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