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LOT 2966
South African Stone Age Tool Group
NEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 6,000 B.P.
1 1/2 - 2 1/4 in. (86.9 grams total, 39-58 mm).
Comprising a D-section blade core and a thin trapezoidal blade; each marked 'S.Africa'. [2, No Reserve]
ProvenanceGifted to 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.
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LOT 2966
South African Stone Age Tool Group
Estimate £30 - 40€35 - 46 (for guidance only)$41 - 54 (for guidance only)
Opening Bid
£5 (EUR 6; USD 7) +BP*
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Dawley British Stone Age Knapped Ficron Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 600,000-2500,000 B.P.Estimate: £120 - 170 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Leaf-shaped in plan with broad rounded butt; an old label reading 'Clayton's, Dawley', inked legend 'Dawley E79'; repaired. 180 grams, 93 mm
Found at Clayton’s Pit, Dawley, Middlesex, UK. From the collection of a London, UK, gentleman.
Clayton’s Pit sat on the Lynch Hill Terrace and was used for commercial brick earth and gravel digging in the 19th and 20th centuries. Many of the stone tools recovered are held in the British Museum and the Museum of London. -
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. 115 grmas total, 21-40 mm
Ex UK gallery, early 2000s. -
Edouard Latet - La Madelaine Stone Age Knife with Label
Neolithic Period, circa 6,000 B.P.Estimate: £80 - 100 (+bp*)
Opening Bid: £5
Triangular-section long-edged knife with old printed paper label '['C' monogram] [L]a Madelaine / Dordogne / 1863 France No.'. 32.3 grams, 10.2 cm
Found by Edouard Latet, La Madeleine, Dordogne, France, 1863. This is a very desired label from pretty much the founder of French Pre-History. This knife was gifted to 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.
Edouard Lartet, financed and helped by the Englishman Henry Christy, were the first systematic excavators of the site, starting in 1863. They published their findings in 1875 under the name of the Age of the Reindeer. Objects that were found at the La Madeleine site are distributed among a number of museums, including the Muséum de Toulouse, the Musée des Antiquités Nationales, St. Germain-en-Laye and the British Museum.
