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LOT 1926
Italian Stone Age Knapped Flint Handaxe
PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 600,000-250,000 B.P.
5 1/4 in. (568 grams, 13.4 cm.).
Cordate in profile with some cortex to the rounded butt; old collector's label 'Monte Grande / Ost van lago di Var[...] / an der Küste d[...] / Lago di Verano [...] / Gargonico'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom Monte Grande.
Ex old German collection formed in the 1970s.
Purchased on the European art market.
Made from flint with a mottled grey and yellow patina.
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