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LOT 2404
Large Stone Age Papuan Mottled Green Polished Axehead
19TH-20TH CENTURY A.D.
11 1/4 in. (1.28 kg, 28.5 cm).
With narrow rounded butt and broad curved cutting edge. [No Reserve]
Provenance
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000.
From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent.
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