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LOT 2990
North American Stone Age Bifacial Knife
CIRCA 6000- 4000 B.P.
3 in. (14.5 grams, 76 mm).
Tongue-shaped in plan with broad butt, marked 'U.S.A. KA.05.x'. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceWith the desired Hugh Fawcett Collection monogram.
From the collection of a 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 2990
North American Stone Age Bifacial Knife
Estimate £60 - 80€70 - 93 (for guidance only)$81 - 108 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Farnham Stone Age Knapped Flint 'Micro-Burins' Collection
Mesolithic Period, circa 15,000 B.P. or laterEstimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Group of microliths, each with a pointed end; about 50% with inked annotation. 10 grams total, 12-35 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. -
El Golea Algerian Stone Age Knapped Bifacial Knife
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Biconvex in section with parallel edges and rounded ends. 57 grams, 12 cm
Found El Golea, Algeria. Ex old German collection of Dr J. Fehkhaber, formed in the 1970s. -
Stone Age Mixed Type Arrowhead Collection
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Estimate: £50 - 70 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Comprising mostly bifacial and uniface leaf-shaped and piriform flint and chert arrowheads; probably from the Sahara region of North Africa. 127 grams total, 24-41 mm
Ex UK gallery, early 2000s.
