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LOT 2967
North American Stone Age Arrowhead
CIRCA 6000- 4000 B.P.
1 in. (1.29 grams, 25.02 mm).
Triangular in plan with long cutting edges; with an inked inscription reading 'AA.7, U.S.A., HF'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceWith the desired Hugh Fawcett Collection monogram.
From the collection of West Sussex, UK, collector.
Dr. Hugh Alderson Fawcett (1891-1982) was a general practitioner and antiquarian who built up an important collection of ancient implements, weapons and ornaments. The bulk of his collection is now in the Bristol Museum and Art Gallery, but Fawcett previously sold or traded some examples. His distinctive monogram and careful recording of provenance makes his pieces readily identifiable.
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LOT 2967
North American Stone Age Arrowhead
Estimate £40 - 60€46 - 70 (for guidance only)$54 - 81 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Farnham Stone Age Finely Knapped Flint Knife
Bronze Age, circa 4000 B.P.Estimate: £60 - 80 (+bp*)
Bids: 1 | Current Bid: £5
Leaf-shaped with finely worked edge, rounded butt. 18.3 grams, 80 mm
Found during the original official excavations in the Farnham area, Surrey, UK, which were conducted by Harold Falkner (1875-1963) and William Francis Rankine (c.1877-1962), who were instrumental in the excavation works and pit dwellings at sites including Six Bells, Frensham, Tilford, Thursley and Bagshot, and Waverley, amongst others, at and near Farnham in the 1930s and 1940s. Much of the material is now in the prestigious Farnham museum. The present part of the collection having been gifted to their good friend and Haselmere Parish Priest, Charles Borelli (c.1914-2000) of Farnham, who was part of the Borelli family from Italy who emigrated from Lake Como in 1828 to set up the Borelli family watch and jewellery business; thence by family descent to his nephew.
Farnham district is one of the most interesting prehistoric regions in England, and has been visited by a succession of prehistoric peoples from Palaeolithic times onwards. Along the southern slope of the Farnham valley are three gravel terraces, which are famous prehistorically and have yielded large quantities of flint implements and bones of prehistoric animals, notably the mammoth. In prehistoric times, the chalk deposits played an important role in attracting settlers, as they contained rich layers of flint nodules used to make implements. The Farnham Gravels have been an abundant source of Palaeolithic finds, most prominent being hand axes. The axes differ in type, and each type is associated with a cultural phase of the Palaeolithic period. Types similar to these are found in similar deposits in the Somme valley and in many English valley gravels. Flint mining was also carried out by the Neolithic folk. Polished axes and leaf forms, arrowheads and knives, or possibly lance heads, are characteristic of the Neolithic flint work. -
London Stone Age Polished Stone Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 6000 B.P.Estimate: £120 - 170 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Lentoid in section with narrow butt and broad curved edge; chipped. 265 grams, 11.3 cm
Found Yieusley, Hillingdon, London, UK. From the collection of Haselmere Parish Priest, Charles Borelli (c.1914-2000) of Farnham; who was part of the Borelli family from Italy who emigrated from Lake Como in 1828 to set up the Borelli family watch and jewellery business; thence by family descent to his nephew. -
London Stone Age Knapped Flint Axe
Neolithic Period, circa 6000 B.P.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Triangular in section with curved edge and butt, inked '18/8/02 Wrecclesham Nr Barnett' legend and ''4 Wrecc / E'. 109 grams, 96 mm
Found near Barnett, London, UK, 18 March 1902. From the collection of Haselmere Parish Priest, Charles Borelli (c.1914-2000) of Farnham; who was part of the Borelli family from Italy who emigrated from Lake Como in 1828 to set up the Borelli family watch and jewellery business; thence by family descent to his nephew.
