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LOT 1516
Stone Age Acheulean 'Homo Erectus' Dark Red Quartzite Axehead
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 1000,000-500,000 B.P.
5 1/2 in. (433 grams, 13.9 cm).
Substantial triangular-section handaxe with broad rounded butt. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFrom the British art market in the 1970s-1980s.
Acquired via inheritance, 1988.
From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
See Cranshaw, S., Handaxes and Cleavers: Selected English Acheulian Industries, BAR British Series 113, Oxford, 1983, pl.9.
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LOT 1516
Stone Age Acheulean 'Homo Erectus' Dark Red Quartzite Axehead
Sold for (Inc. bp): £442
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Large Stone Age Polished Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £221
With rounded cutting edge, lentoid cross-section and domed butt. 891 grams, 25 cm
From a collection acquired on the UK art market from various auction houses and collections mostly before 2000. From an important Cambridgeshire estate; thence by descent. -
Stone Age Twydall Flint Proto-Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £65
Irregular-shaped implement with some cortex remaining; with an old inked inscription: '8.35.1048.C Twydall'. 377 grams, 11.2 cm
Found Twydall, Kent, UK. Richard Jones collection, Welling, Kent, UK, 1912-1915. Ex Rochester Museum, Kent collections. Specialist collection of J Edwin Jarvis. Ex Martin Schoyen collection, London, UK. Accompanied by a copy of an article on the site at Twydall. -
Stone Age Knapped Flint Handaxe Group
Neolithic Period, 3000-2000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Comprising: triangular flint blade broken at butt with old inked inscription 'Arment./ZC.6'; irregular curved cleaver, triangular in section with old inked inscription 'Arment./ZC.7', cortex remaining to the reverse; triangular flint blade with straight butt and old inked inscriptions 'Verneuil / J4.137.5' and '73.4'; long flake blade with applied sticker 'D', old inked inscription 'Verneuil / J4.141.N' and 'D.'. 392 grams total, 8.3-12.4 cm
From the collection of François Bigot (1950-2009). with Auction Art Rémy Le Fur & Associés, 28th September 2021.
'Arment.' in these inscriptions may refer to Armentières on the Franco-Belgian border.
