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LOT 1715
French Stone Age Solutrean Knapped Flint Leaf Point - Ex Sir Arthur Evans
UPPER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, 22,000-17,000 B.P.
2 1/4 in. (15.5 grams, 56 mm).
Triangular, flat point of grey-brown flint, one blade is slightly excurvate, and the other excurvated at the terminal end, the base broken straight across. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound in Les Eyries Cave, Dordogne, France.
Received in a Museum exchange in 1900.
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 1715
French Stone Age Solutrean Knapped Flint Leaf Point - Ex Sir Arthur Evans
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
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