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LOT 2392
Natural History - Prehistoric Skull Replica
20TH CENTURY A.D.
8 in. (1.54 kg, 20.2 cm).
With rounded brain-pan, articulating mandible; perhaps Homo habilis. [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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