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LOT 1512
Stone Age Acheulean 'Homo Erectus' Red Quartzite Cleaver-Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 1000,000-500,000 B.P.
4 3/8 in. (407 grams, 11.3 cm).
Lentoid in section with irregular rounded edge and desert patina. [No Reserve]
ProvenanceFound Northern Sahara, North Africa.
From 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.
Cf. MacGregor, A. (ed.), Antiquities from Europe and the Near East in the Collection of Lord McAlpine of West Green, Oxford, 1987, item 1.27, for type.
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LOT 1512
Stone Age Acheulean 'Homo Erectus' Red Quartzite Cleaver-Handaxe
Sold for (Inc. bp): £169
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Stone Age Knapped Axehead Group
Neolithic Period, circa 6th-4th millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £26
Comprising: one with broad butt and squared cutting edge; one similar with rounded edge. 1.1 kg total, 12.8-14.2 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 Knapped Flint Handaxe
Lower Palaeolithic Period, 480,000-250,000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £312
Cleaver with broad butt and rounded cutting edge chipped through usage, remains of cortex to lateral edge. 278 grams, 11.9 cm
From the collection of Jean-Claude Debenne (1936-2020), an amateur prehistorian and former member of the French Society of Prehistory and the Prehistoric Association of the South-West, as well as an Honorary Member of the Geological Club of Ile-de-France. This collection of flints was assembled between the 1950s and 1990s and originates from Ile-de-France, Oise, and Val-d'Oise. -
Stone Age Arrowhead and Scraper Group
Neolithic Period, circa 3rd millennium B.C. and laterSold for (Inc. bp): £59
Including narrow flint spearheads with barbs, D-shaped blades, pointed burins and other tools; the larger spearheads probable reproductions. 427 grams total, 3.3-14.5 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.
