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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 Twydall Flint Tool
Lower Palaeolithic Period, circa 400,000 B.P.Sold for (Inc. bp): £39
Small implement with flattened underside; with an old inked inscription: '4.SS.1120.C. Twydall'. 88 grams, 70 mm
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 'York' Polished Axehead Group
Neolithic Period, circa 4th-3rd millennium B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £104
Comprising one trapezoidal in profile with square butt, one similar with waisted profile and narrow butt, one squat with broad butt; one with faint inked inscription: 'KINGSTON / YORK'. 441 grams total, 85-101 mm
One found Kingston, York, UK. 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 Danish Knapped Flint Dagger
Late Neolithic Period, circa 2000-1700 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £208
With leaf-shaped two-edged blade and stub hilt. 26.5 grams, 90 mm
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.
