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LOT 2394

Sold for (Inc. bp): £46

PAPUAN POLISHED GREEN STONE AXEHEAD
EARLY 20TH CENTURY A.D. OR EARLIER
10 3/4 in. (571 grams, 27.4 cm).

Lentoid in section and fish-shaped in profile with usage wear. [No Reserve]

PROVENANCE:
Found Waskuk Hills, Upper Sepik, Papua New Guinea, Oceania, prior to WWI.
From the private collection of Kenneth Machin (1936-2020), Buckinghamshire, UK; with collection no.
AA26; his collection of antiquities and natural history was formed since 1948; thence by descent.

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