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LOT 0259
Large French Stone Age Magdalenian Bone Awl
LATE UPPER PALAEOLITHIC, CIRCA 21,000-13,000 B.P.
5 5/8 in. (25.9 grams, 14.4 cm).
Well-preserved bone awl with a long tapering point, inked collector's note 'Abris Val de Seine Poinçon, Magdalenien Dragage / Seine 75480'.
ProvenanceFrom Abris Val De Seine, France.
From an auction with Art Remy Le Fur.
Acquired on the European art market in the 2020s.
Accompanied by a copy of a French export licence no.257541.
The Magdalenian is a technocomplex of the Late Upper Palaeolithic, named after the type site of Abri de la Madeleine, a rock shelter located in the Vézère valley of Tursac in Dordogne, France.
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LOT 0259
Large French Stone Age Magdalenian Bone Awl
Estimate £500 - 700€580 - 810 (for guidance only)$680 - 950 (for guidance only)
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Stone Age Tool and Core Collection
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
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. -
French Stone Age Knapped Diamond Arrowhead
Neolithic Period, circa 6000 B.P.Estimate: £40 - 60 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Lozenge-shaped body with an old handwritten label 'Villambard'. 1.87 grams, 28 mm
From France. Acquired in the 1970s-1990s. From the collections of the famous UK musician and amateur archaeologist, Victor Brox (1941-2023). Acquired on the UK art market in the 2020s. From a private collection. -
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French Stone Age Solutrean Knapped Flint Leaf Point - Ex Sir Arthur Evans
Upper Palaeolithic Period, 22,000-17,000 B.P.Estimate: £100 - 140 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
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. 15.5 grams, 56 mm
Found 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.
