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LOT 1588
Large Stone Age Tool Group from Wellesbourne
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6,000 YEARS B.P.
7/8 - 2 in. (92 grams total, 22-52 mm).
Group of finely worked flint tools with adhesive labels and inked collection numbers W10, 20, 21, 29, 30,32, 38, 59 and two unnumbered; all from Wellesbourbe, warwickshire, UK. [10, No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Wellesbourne, Warwickshire, UK.
Acquired on the UK art market in the 1970s.
Ex amateur archaeologist.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, collector.
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Stone Age Acheulian Cleaver Hand Axe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 200,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £72
With a typical brownish patina. 781 grams, 15.5 cm
Discovered in 1967 at Erg Belfelfoul, Algeria. From an old Hamburg, German, collection. -
Stone Age Knapped Ovate Knife Group
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Each with carefully knapped cutting; three discoid and one lozengiform. 107 grams total, 51-55 mm
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. -
Stone Age Knapped Flint Handaxe Group
Neolithic Period, 3000-2000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
Comprising three flake blades: one triangular with old inked inscription 'Mont St. Aignant / Briqueterie'; one triangular in section, leaf-shaped with old inked inscription 'St. Pierre les Elbeu[.] / Colo. G. Séhet'; One an irregular ellipsoid, triangular in section with old inked inscription 'Env. Rouen / Bné'. 275 grams total, 9.8-13.3 cm
From the collection of François Bigot (1950-2009). with Auction Art Rémy Le Fur & Associés, 28th September 2021, no.128.
