Powys Welsh Stone Age Knapped Flint Scraper

Slender leaf-shaped in plan and triangular in section, with tapering ends. 113 grams, 15.4 cm



From the famed and desired region of Gran Pressigny, France. Ex Chauvais collection, formed in the early 1900s. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector.

Long-bone fragment modified with sharpened point; old label 'Dagger [.] / Pin. Swiss / Lakes Pre / Historic [...]'. 21.9 grams, 18 cm



Found Swiss Lakes, 4th December 1899. 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.

Mixed group of mainly pointed microliths, about 50% with inked annotation. 9 grams total, 12-38 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.