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LOT 1555
Stone Age Acheulean 'Homo Erectus' Red Quartzite Handaxe
LOWER PALAEOLITHIC PERIOD, CIRCA 1,000,000-500,000 B.P.
6 3/4 in. (1 kg, 17 cm).
Biconvex in section with large rounded butt and narrow tip (absent). [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 1.1, for type.
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LOT 1555
Stone Age Acheulean 'Homo Erectus' Red Quartzite Handaxe
Sold for (Inc. bp): £442
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Stone Age Cave Drawing of a Giraffe
Neolithic Period, 3rd-2nd millennium B.C. or laterSold for (Inc. bp): £2,080
Dressed stone panel with incised image of a horned animal in profile; mounted on a custom made display stand. 3.98 kg total, 35.7 cm high including stand
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. -
Massive European Stone Age Flint Axehead
Neolithic Period, circa 4000-2000 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £715
Substantial cleaver pre-form with rounded butt. 22 grams, 24.5 cm
Found continental Europe. Ex Victor Brox collection, UK, formed during the 1980s-1990s. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
Preforms such as this unusually large and undamaged example were widely traded during Neolithic times and were a valuable commodity in communities which lacked suitable material for stone tool production. There has been research showing signs of wear from rubbing against cloth, suggesting that they might have been carried over long distances. -
Danish Stone Age Classic Thin-Butted Axehead with Sharpened Butt
Early to Late Dolmen Period, circa 3700-3300 B.C.Sold for (Inc. bp): £416
Lentoid in profile and rectangular in plan with curved butt sharpened to a second cutting edge, with superb colour. 854 grams, 21 cm
Acquired on the British art market. From the collection of a South West London, UK, specialist Stone Age collector.
