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LOT 1520
Published French Stone Age Arrowhead Group
NEOLITHIC TO EARLY BRONZE AGE PERIOD, CIRCA 6000-4000 B.P.
7 3/4 x 7 3/4 in. (222 grams total, 19.6 x 19.5 cm including frame).
Mounted on a board in a square wooden frame with old collector's label 'Henouville 1951 MA'.
ProvenanceFound Henouville, France, in 1951, by a Mr M A.
From an old collection.
Acquired on the European art market.
From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector.
This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
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LOT 1520
Published French Stone Age Arrowhead Group
Estimate £200 - 300€230 - 350 (for guidance only)$270 - 410 (for guidance only)
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French Stone Age Mousterian Flint Racloir
Middle Palaeolithic Period, Mousterian circa 150,000- 60,000 B.PSold for (Inc. bp): £78
Very well formed example with neat retouch, cortex to trailing edge; inked legend 'Plazac / Dord)'. 66 grams, 94 mm
Found in the Dordogne, France. Acquired on the European art market. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
Made by Neanderthals. -
Published French Stone Age Arrowhead Group
Neolithic to Early Bronze Age Period, circa 6000-4000 B.P.Estimate: £200 - 300 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £100
Mounted on a board in a square wooden frame with old collector's label 'Henouville 1951 MA'. 222 grams total, 19.6 x 19.5 cm including frame
Found Henouville, France, in 1951, by a Mr M A. From an old collection. Acquired on the European art market. From the private collection of an East Anglian, UK, specialist collector. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato. -
Scandinavian Stone Age Polished Stone Thick-Butted Axehead
Neolithic Period, 4000-2300 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £572
Highly polished with slightly concave sides, square butt, inked collector's note to one side. 510 grams, 21.7 cm
Found Scandinavia 25 May 1943. From the private collection of John Fox, Nottingham, Nottinghamshire, UK, antiquarian and archaeologist; his collection assembled in the 1950s-1970s. This lot is accompanied by an illustrated lot declaration signed by the Head of the Antiquities Department, Dr Raffaele D'Amato.
