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LOT 2818
Gran Pressigny French Stone Age Knapped Long Blade Knife
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6000 B.P.
5 in. (104 grams, 12.8 cm).
Leaf-shaped in plan and triangular in section, with a thick oval section butt. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the famed and desired region of Gran Pressigny, France.
Ex Chauvais collection, formed in the early 1900s.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector.
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LOT 2818
Gran Pressigny French Stone Age Knapped Long Blade Knife
Estimate £50 - 70€58 - 81 (for guidance only)$68 - 95 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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El Golea Algeria Stone Age Polished Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 6000 B.P.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
With narrow rounded butt and an eccentric curved cutting edge. 111 grams, 85 mm
Found El Golea, Algeria. Ex old German collection of Dr J. Fehkhaber, formed in the 1970s. -
Gran Pressigny French Stone Age Knapped Long Blade Knife
Neolithic Period, circa 6000 B.P.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Leaf-shaped in plan and triangular in section, with one face smooth, knapped to fit a hand grip. 160 grams, 14.7 cm
From the famed and desired region of Gran Pressigny, France. Ex Chauvais collection, formed in the early 1900s. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector. -
London Stone Age Knapped Flint Axe
Neolithic Period, circa 6000 B.P.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Triangular in section with curved edge and butt, inked '18/8/02 Wrecclesham Nr Barnett' legend and ''4 Wrecc / E'. 109 grams, 96 mm
Found near Barnett, London, UK, 18 March 1902. From the collection of 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.
